Twitter appeared 10 years ago in 2006. I opened an account there just two years after the launch of the project, in 2008, since then I have been using it regularly, gaining a small subscriber base and subscribing, in turn, to people of interest to me. Almost every day, I glance at the Twitter feed on my smartphone through Fenix several times, at least briefly, and learn from there some news and other things.
Facebook started 12 years ago, in 2004. I started an account there six years later, in 2010, set up the feed, added friends and started to drop in from time to time. As the years passed, the number of friends grew, the format for updating the FB feed changed, from time to time I was subscribed to some left-wing communities and groups (without my knowledge, yes), I was removed from them, I hid the publications of some especially zealous people from the list of 'friends' and continued to look into the tape almost every day.
And recently I caught myself thinking that every morning I start by reading the news feed in Twitter and Facebook. At the same time, I also have accounts in the networks 'Vkontakte', 'Google+', and some other, probably, but every day I follow 'Twitter' and 'Facebook'. I don't know why, but like that. And after that, I suddenly realized how long it had not been to keep order in my private corners of these networks.
Take Twitter – the last time I looked at whom I generally subscribed to, five years ago, probably, Seriously. From time to time I subscribe to some new people, having seen interesting messages through retweets, sometimes I come across completely stupid posts, I press 'unsubscribe', but this is extremely rare. At the same time, I have no lists, categories, I have never sat down and tried to figure it out. Who I am subscribed to, who is still worth subscribing to, and whom to unsubscribe from.
Roughly the same situation with Facebook – I read the feed every day, but still haven't found (didn't want to find?) Time to set it up normally: hide posts from those people who are not interesting to me, turn on notifications for interesting groups and people, clean up the list of groups where they managed to sign me, and so on.
At the same time, I regularly clean up the desktop of my home PC once every one or two months, and not only on the desktop, but also on disks: sorting some folders, deleting unnecessary files from the desktop, throwing something into archives, something in the basket, in a word, I put the workplace in order. I do roughly the same thing with mailboxes – I check the relevance of the lists, the work of the configured filters, add new ones, remove the irrelevant ones, update the flags (tags in Gmail) tags, and so on. That is, I carry out a routine cleaning, as my parents taught in childhood – to clean up my room, to put things in order.
But for some reason, during all this time, I have never had the desire to do something like that with my ribbons Facebook and Twitter. Why? To be honest, I don’t know. It's strange for me to think about this now, because I can't find an explanation, because in total I spend on these two networks at least half an hour of my time a day, and sometimes an hour, while, I'm sure, I consume a lot of unnecessary, unnecessary information, but my brain before that of the moment did not want to think about it and offer to carry out cleaning there too. Now, of course, I'll take care of it, but the sediment will remain.
In this connection, I have a question for you, dear readers. How does this happen with you? Are there any routine account checks and cleanups, or do you, like me, use most social media on a knock-off basis by signing up and overhauling them once?