To Follow or not to follow?
To Follow or not to follow?Inspired by @rohan_21awake and @videodreaming...I recently began to re-build my Twitter experience. After reading their Tweets...It just felt like the right thing to do. I started by unfollowing everyone that I know personally and kept just the people/feeds that are aligned with topics that I am curious about. That felt a little weird because I had been following some of these people for several years. More on how I came to terms about this move in a moment. After I unfollowed everyone I know I was left with a revised list that was mainly comprised of podcasters, writers, and spiritual leaders whose thoughts intrigue me on some level.Not to say that the people I know personally and was following don't intrigue me. They do...greatly! That's one reason why they are my friends. I throughly enjoy my "off-line" conversations with them. This re-building experience is not about terminating friendships. It is about...as most of the moves I make...attempting to track down yet another space in my life where the opportunity to cultivate mental silence is possible.What I found...as I called up each of my friend's feeds...was that the overwhelming majority of the people I know personally...do not post to Twitter...or...haven't posted an idea in a l-o-n-g time...so...I doubt they will even notice that I've unfollowed them.I'm not sure what this move will ultimately result in. Mental silence? Maybe. Focusing my experience on people I do not know personally seems like the right thing right now. Twitter has always...whether I have been able to articulate or not...seemed to be (for me) a place where people reach out...seeking membership with alternate communities. Don't get me wrong...I know people use Twitter for other reasons. I know people that know each other use it to stay in contact with one another. That doesn't seem to fit my needs at the moment.