"But while there are times you want to attend a grand party where everyone's invited, sometimes you want to hang around with a few close friends. And sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day to pay attention to everybody."

THIS EXACTLY.

it's a "noisy" site for me. especially if i'm trying to wade through all the new followers to see who i'd like to follow back; i don't want to have to wade through EVERY one of them every time, but that's exactly what happens.

same thing with the posts. i've had to relegate myself to just accepting that i'll be interacting with the posts that appear that day or in the last day or two. beyond that, i'm constantly seeking out new stuff by new people to avoid so much of the stuff i just cannot handle.

if there were some more search parameter options in certain ways (like showing when a follower began following you or a search for posts you've upvoted or even a separate "pinned" area for posts that you really liked, but didn't resteem or upvote for whatever reason), that would be phenomenal.