OK So it is with a heavy heart that I make this status. For those who don't know, I am going back to college online right now. I also have 5 children, work a 10 hr shift job at a call center in sales that I don't like but it does some good money, and I am followed to a lot of people here (261 to be precise). While this is more due to the forum only having a follow function vs an "add friend" function, I cannot deny that FOMO (fear of missing out) is a crutch I walk with. I never miss notifications, I open every one of them even if I don't react or reply, even if the notification was from 2 months ago. As much a mental issue as it is for me, I do somewhat pride myself on giving every notification a chance to be important and worth opening. Up to this point, I've been fine with this. In the last 2 months I went on an escapade slowly opening over 2000 backed up notifications since I started school, a new job, and had a new baby to deal with. But it is beginning to strain me. 

I love (almost) all of you dearly, and this forum has made me many good friends and fun conversations. I've gained a lot of info that helped me when I was studying for Comptia A+. And I will not stop being the over obsessive notification hog I am. 

But I will cut down a bit. Some of you will have to go. This is temporary. I will be writing down names to re-follow later when school is over or I've better acclimated to a better time management routine. (Almost) No one is being removed because I don't like you or don't care about what you say.

No one will stop being my friend if they don't want to. I'm simply going to be realistic with myself on how I react to most of these notifications. Being self critical, I've noticed that a large majority of notifications, I neither react nor reply to. This is not necessarily because I don't like it or don't like the person. Most often I simply have nothing to add or no reaction to give. I'm getting better with tech every day and gaining a lot of knowledge. But truthfully most of you are still way ahead of me. Many of you started loving tech in your early years and have a deep cultivated rich knowledge. I loved tech but never stopped to cultivate my learning in it until very recently. I'm 30 next year and I've only been working for an IT career for the last 3 years. So for many of you, you're simply beyond a point where I can respond to what you're talking about. Many of those I will be unfollowing for the time. Many of you have a lot of posts, but most of it is very blog like. Nothing wrong with this, but I don't typically respond much to this type of content. And even further some of you really have little content, like me. You mostly talk on other's content. There's a good many of you that I could fully keep track of just by following one person's content. 

Don't get me wrong, when it comes to notifications I am a masochist. I relish having to go through dozens of pages of notifications and knowing that I gave everyone a little bit of my time and attention. Sadly I just don't have that much time anymore. And as much as I enjoy that rising number by my name, not being able to stop every few days and culling the notifications down is leaving me with a great deal of stress lately. I feel as if I'm abandoning a part of who I am, and I can't stop thinking about it. Combined with a new job, draining myself trying to be a salesman when I hate sales, dealing with a 4 month old who doesn't appeal to a good night's sleep, and the sheer exhaustion of life and my 10 hr shift plus 5 kids when I get home, it all leaves me just overwhelmed enough that school is on a side burner to everything else right now. For my sake and the sake of my family, that can no longer be the case. I've always been a procrastinator btu I'm kicking my own butt on this one and being forceful. To those of you I have to make a cut on, I apologize and assure you I have your name down and you will return to my follow list in 2-2.5 yrs of studies or earlier depending. Also to the notifications left behind, I will not be waiting weeks or months to answer anymore. I'm giving myself a time slot every day to do my stuff here on the forum. 

also if anyone who got a temp cut has a status they want me to see for any reason, tag me, message me. I'll still be here for whoever needs me. The point of this is to focus my efforts where it matters instead on the hundreds of statuses I don't know enough about or have anything to say on.I will always answer any tags and messages no matter what.

I've been typing this instead of doing hw, so to not be hypocritical, I'm heading off for now. Thank you to anyone who read this far and thank you for understanding. Goodnight