I’m not terribly active on DailyBooth. I follow friends, and I check in every day to see what they’re up to, but I don’t actually post myself very often. It’s something that I’m hoping to change in the new year.

It’s called DailyBooth, so why not take one daily?

Anyway, that’s not what I want to write about right now.

Tonight I DID post. It was kind of a lame picture, I look pretty blah in it, but I’m drinking my Dr Pepper, so I don’t really mind.

The picture did earn me a new follower though, as well as a fantastic new message from a wonderful young gentleman asking me if I wanted him to follow me, in return for following him.

He was also kind enough to tell me about another site that’s similar to DB, but with GIFs instead. If I wanted to follow him on there, he’d follow me there as well.

Isn’t that nice?

It’s people like him who make me want to write back and just say, excuse me, but you’re doing it wrong. Social media is not about following someone because they are following you. You should follow someone because you like what they are posting and want to see what that is.

I’ve never understood the follow for follow idea. Followers to me mean nothing if they are only following me because I’m following them. Plus, those usually aren’t actually people I care to follow.

Can someone please explain the follow for follow idea to me? Or is it really just a way to grow numbers?