The popularity of Facebook continues to puzzle me. Because its "all following relationships must be mutual" paradigm is SO BROKEN. People end up following a zillion people they don't give a damn about because that's what you have to do if you want to broadcast there.

I really wish Google hadn't driven off half their early adopters of G+ with their shitfit about "real names only" because it actually has asymmetrical following relationships. When anyone can see your public posts, you only have to follow people you care about instead, and the service doesn't have to do these increasingly convoluted hacks to try and only show you things it thinks you "want" to see.

If you're making some kind of social network, please save your future self - and your future users - this kind of hassle. Allow asymmetrical following.

tl;dr: I miss Livejournal.