Everyone who says they've done the same thing is probably guilty of the cardinal sin of social media: linking to accounts you really have no business linking to

Everyone who says they've done the same thing is probably guilty of the cardinal sin of social media: linking to accounts you really have no business linking to. The underlying problem is connecting to everyone you recognize and everyone who asks. On Facebook, I only befriend people who are actual, real-life friends. (Currently a paltry 148.) Life changes and moves on. People who fall off my radar get unfriended. It's pretty simple. And, of my friends, I mute those whose posts I find annoying and/or spammy. The people who are "friends" with thousands of people? That makes ZERO sense for anyone, and you have only yourself to blame for a news feed that is nutty and bizarre. I get it. We're all still working out how to live with an antagonistic service that we can't live without, but I have settled into this approach, and I can promise it works much better than gaming your number of contacts.