Are Recent Social Connections Meaningful?
A conversation at work recently got me thinking about how people build and change their online networks, someone mentioned that the newest accounts a person follows can sometimes reveal what they are currently focused on, whether it’s a new hobby, industry news, entertainment, or personal projects, at first I dismissed the idea, but after looking through my own social media activity, I noticed there was some truth to it, the accounts I connected with over the past few months reflected interests that weren’t even on my radar a year ago, of course, some follows happen on impulse and mean very little, which makes the whole topic more interesting, do recent social connections genuinely show where a person’s attention is going, or do they create a misleading picture of their actual interests?