I thought p we needed the follower count because this is how you know that one account is "better" than the other, but now that I'm thinking about it this is not necessarily true
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Totally. IMO, the like / follower count feeds a starving narcissistic appetite, politicizes benign content, and reduces the dissemination of original thought.
Kind of reminds me of 8th grade kids jockeying to be popular for popular sake. Remember those kids that were popular and had a loud voice about things only because they were supposed to be the popular ones but were in reality quite an empty shell?