I forgot why I followed certain Instagram accounts
A few days ago I was cleaning up my social media feeds and realized how many random accounts I’ve followed over the past couple of months, some of them looked completely unfamiliar, even though I clearly chose to follow them at some point, It’s funny how easy it is to tap a button in the moment and then totally forget the context later, while trying to sort everything out, I came across recently-followed and it actually made me think about how scattered our online activity becomes over time, between short videos, suggested profiles, and endless scrolling, it’s easy to lose track of what caught your attention in the first place, now I’m wondering if other people also go back through their follows just to figure out what they were interested in a week earlier.
It wasn’t until I was trying to rebuild my morning feed that I realized how quickly social apps erase your recent activity from memory, after clearing out dozens of accounts late one evening, I suddenly couldn’t recall a couple of useful pages I used daily, which annoyed me more than I expected, while searching for a way to trace back what I had done, recently-followed and it helped me piece together the missing profiles, since then, I’ve been more careful with cleaning up my follow list too fast.