I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE: I am sorely tempted, much more often than I feel comfortable admitting, to “unfollow” an ungodly number of people on Twitter. Friends. Family members. Idolized authors whose tweets, for various reasons, send them floor-ward from their pedestals.
But instead of making a clean break, I agonize. I dither.
That’s because for some reason, unfollowing people can seem almost sinful. At the very least, I can’t help thinking that it suggests a