I long ago turned most of my notifications off - I don't have time to run to Medium every time something happens. I don't subscribe to any e-mails to get stories and I don't even like that people subscribe to mine. I generally don't go and look at someone's work just because they've followed me, I'll often go and check out something if they've done a decent comment in an article rather than a hit-and-run - but more often I'll check them out when their name becomes familiar.. I have no idea how many people have clapped anything I write because that notification went in the bin about 20 minutes after I arrived here in 2018. Who has the time. Also, everyone follow me because I'm awesome and I need to get to 20K followers before tomorrow or you'll have bad luck! What is this? An e-mail from 2002. Get in the bin.