RE: If you are doing follow for follow... Get off the platform!!!
The follow me / follow you practice never made one speck of sense to me either. If a person isn't reading your content, he's not doing you a bit of good. The "follow me" whores who just collect statistics are dealing in the most futile kind of vanity imaginable.
And there is a real limit on how many writers / artists you can productively follow at all. Let's face it, if you're "following" 20,000 people (like is so obsessively practiced on Twitter!! -- I gave up totally on that place!!) you're not really following anyone at all. Your virtual chances of seeing a particular post, even one from an outstanding creator are near-zero. So, WTF is the point?
Here, you want people who like what you do, who are interested in your work, who will help support you so you can continue and who make you feel valued and "seen." You do not need a bunch of dead fish cluttering up your bloated follower statistics. If you have 500+ "followers" and manage about 2 UVs on every post, they're not doing you much good at all ... are they?!?
You know the best bit about your reply was this.
I think I might have said this before I would rather have ten followers that I engage with all the time than 790 of my current ones. Its sad to say that the lovely Gina every day notifies me that I have new followers, I am being pessimestic (check out me big words) but I feel and know that in a few days they will unfollow me, they don't even ask now. I see a pattern forming.