Elbows wrote:Fair warning, it will make you look an occasional ass - unfollowing all of your Facebook friends like I do. Occasionally I catch up with someone and they say "yeah so my son" - "Wait, you have a kid?" - "Yeah we've been posting about him for months..." - "ohhh...."

Yes! I do that too. I'll only follow a current partner if pertinent (because failing to respond to those updates could be messy).
Makes my
FB dashboard look like this (on the rare occasions I go there):
But yeah... "mindless scrolling" would otherwise be a problem.