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North Salem NY real estate learns to Unfollow People Not Following You | North Salem NY homes for sale

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Why You Should Periodically Unfollow

I joined twitter a few months ago just to follow the gorgeous real celebrities that are lurking around in it. I started following them and soon found ‘following’ to be my passion. I followed people without much thinking, saw them and clicked follow. At a point I stopped and took a quiet and calm look at my twitter homepage. I was literally shocked upon seeing the tweets. It was a mix of blasphemous, junk and sorry tweets.

Nowadays, this is a common scenario among the normal twitter users. They often find themselves in a bit of mess and become helpless. To get rid of these problems we should unfollow people regularly. There can be many reasons why we should periodically unfollow twitter friends.

Increasing the HomePage Quality

More than often, you will see your homepage full of useless junks rather than useful tweets. There are many celebrities who like to tweet a couple of times an hour. Most of the time, these tweets are about how their makeup looks, their feeling towards the camera roll etc. So in a word the homepage of your twitter account is full of mess. That is why there is a need to unfollow people from time to time.

Reducing Spam

One of the most irritating elements in twitter is the amount of spam in it. Twitter is a goldmine for webmasters as there are many real people using twitter accounts. Twitter does not even need to accept requests like FaceBook. So, they can easily tweet their products, links and whatever they want. In the process, they start repeating themselves and promoting constantly. Moreover, there are people who send you a direct message containing spam links which is equally annoying. Unfollowing them would be the perfect solution to these problems.

Justice!

While tweeting, you will occasionally stumble upon some unknown faces that have over 1000s followers. Usually, people like to add these persons out of curiosity and hope that they would follow back. Or there are many people who force you to follow them and later dump you by not following. It is about time you brought justice to them by unfollowing them.

Being Realistic

It is true that there are thousands of real celebrities that are tweeting in twitter. People like to follow them and like to know more about them. Usually, twitter provides an insight of them as it is better than a Google search or article. They would like to ask questions and expect an answer. But a true fact is that you cannot get any answer to your questions or any reply to your tweets if they do not follow you back which are the case 90% of the time. So, following them without them following you back is more like filling a bottle of wine with water and drinking it.

Now these are some reasons why you should try unfollowing a few people at times. Unfollowing has become a lot easier these days with the help of many web based unfollow tools that are available today.

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Katonah NY real estate says Happy Birthday!! | Theme Lab is 4 Years Old Today | Theme Lab for Katonah NY Homes

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As the title says. Yes, it’s really been that long. This year has been relatively quiet compared to previous years. In the past year, four free WordPress themes were released along with two free CSS templates. There was also one “donation” theme.

Like I outlined in my Thank You theme post, I’ve been a bit busy the past year off at school, hence the lack of posts. In the rest of the post, I’ll outline some future plans for the site.

The Future

First of all, a new site design is in the works. In fact, it’s already been designed. You can probably spot a few teasers on James McDonald’s Dribbble page, who was also the designer of the current theme you see here.

There are a few more theme releases in the works, which may or may not be commercial.

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Bedford Corners NY Homes learns Recognition Is Easier Than Recall | What Makes Them Buy Bedford Corners NY real estate

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Let’s say I asked you to remember this list of words:

Apple

Table

Peach

Window

Chair

Pear

Orange

Fork

Mango

And then later on I asked you to reconstruct the list from memory. That is called a “recall” memory task. Now let’s say I bring you into a kitchen and ask you what items in the kitchen were on the list. That is called a “recognition” memory task.

Recognition is easier than recall – Recognition is easier than recall. Recognition makes use of context. And context can help you remember.

Inclusion errors — Without looking at the the list of words at the top of the blog again, try to write down all the words that were there. Do this now before we continue. Now compare the list of words you wrote down with the list of words at the top. All the words related to things you might find in a kitchen, some were utensils and others were fruit.  There are probably some words that you wrote down that weren’t even in the original list, but that go with the kitchen or fruit, for example, you might have written down “banana”. Banana wasn’t on the list, but it is related to the list through the schema “fruit”. (See the article on schema for more information on how we use schema to think and remember).  A schema can help you remember items, but it also can cause these inclusion errors.

Making things easier – Recognition vs. recall is one of the ways that computer interfaces have changed over time. Many years ago (back before graphical user interfaces were around), people would have to recall a lot more information. For example, there weren’t pull down menus with lists of choices. You had to remember what the choices were and type them in from memory. Worse you probably had to remember what the code was for the choice you wanted and type the code in. This is a recall memory task, and added to the difficulty of use of these early systems. One reason that “Windows” interfaces are easier is that they don’t require as much recall memory. They make more use of recognition memory.

What do you think? How do more modern interfaces make less use of recall and more use of recognition?

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