advocate for keeping "subscribe" anonymous

and it’s still anonymous
so i’m calling this done
yay

but continue to think about it while i’m gone… don’t let this become highschool all over again… online…

how it will feel to know who’s stopped subscribing to you?

it’s one thing to see a little number go down

but quite another to know who dropped you, and then feeling all personally rejected and whatnot, and seeing that person’s posts with a jaundiced eye… and being all-around wierded out

ugh

here’s a good place to make your views known:
http://ideas.43things.com/things/view/191087

(did you even know there was a forty-three ideas site all about how to improve forty-three things? tres cool)

from lilalahood (our fearless unofficial leader):
http://www.43things.com/entries/view/96339

from msrobot:
http://www.43things.com/people/progress/msrobot/393199

from me:
http://ideas.43things.com/people/progress/sunya/1165919

I know that a lot of people want to know who is subscribing to them, but honestly, I’d rather not. I would feel more self-conscious about my entries if I knew EXACTLY who was reading them on a regular basis. Sure, I’ve got some ideas based on who responds to my entries, and I’m totally comfortable with that.

One of the reasons I don’t want to reveal who I’M subscribed to is that sometimes I subscribe to someone on a trial basis to see if I’m interested in what they’re writing about. If I decide that I’m NOT really interested in what they’re writing, then I unsubscribe. No guilt about it. If this were made public, I would feel pressure to keep people on my list so that I wouldn’t hurt their feelings by unsubscribing. (Nor do I want to know when someone unsubscribes from me!)

I think the anonymity built into this ONE feature on 43T is a great asset.