Instagram Followers
What's Going to Change
Following people that don't follow you. That is what is going to change. You may have good intentions with following a celebrity, business, person. I would argue that the usefulness of that follow is doing more harm than good. No, the content that they post is not harming you. Them having your attention over your friends is.
You attention everday is Finite
Attention is not an unlimited resource. What is given, is taken from the pool to give. This is literally within the construct of time. You will only have so many rotations around the sun. Every rotation, aka day, will end. You attention can only be spread out across the minutes of the day.
It's your choice on how to spend you time/attention. I know I will like to give it to the people who at least know of my existence. Secondly, confirm on the platform that we are connected. I personally will like to give my time and attention to those few.
One may say. David Goggins is a good follow because of motivation. What about the organizations page with updates. I say checkout their website. Subscribe to their newseletter. Join their GroupMe. Just don't intermingle their buisness with your attempt to connect with friends. The lines will blur. You will find yourself not seeing much of your actual friends on Instagram.
Below I have a workflow to grab the people not following you. I should take about 30 mins - 1hr with some coding experiance to grab. After I got the list I went through removing all the people that did not follow me.
Get list of people not following you
Don't want to do this? I will do it for you for $1. If you account is private I will need your credentials. Or follow _quindarius on instagram.
+-------------------------------------------+ | Instagram Signin | | | | +---------+ +----------+ +---------+ | | | Cookie | | USER_ID | | APP_ID | | | | | | | | | | | +---------+ +----------+ +---------+ | | | +-------------------------------------------+ | v +---------------+ | Curl Request | | | +---------------+ ^ | | ^ +----+ | | +---+ | | | | Use Next | | Use Next | +-+ +--+ | | | | | +-------|----|---------|---|-------+ | |Instagram Account | | | | v v | | | +----------+ +----------+ | | |Following | |Followers | | | | | | | | | +----------+ +----------+ | | | | | +--------|----------------|--------+ | | v v +--------------+ +--------------+ |Following.txt | |Followers.txt | | | | | +--------------+ +--------------+ ------+ +------ | | v v +--------------+ |Process Files | | | +--------------+ | v +---------------------------------+ |People-Not-Following-Me-Back.txt | | | +---------------------------------+