Problem: Sharing workflow is unclear and leads to lower social connectivity

[weex]

As a new user, when I find a post I'm interested in seeing more of I can hover over the person's name and click "Add contact". This sends a notification that I've started sharing with them. Add contact = share with them. Got it.

They may then choose to reciprocate by putting me into one of their aspects (social circle) at which time I'll see a notification that they've started sharing with me.

If I decide that I no longer want to see their posts, my expectation is that I could go to my contacts and remove them somehow. If I do, what I'm really doing is stopping sharing from my end. I don't know any better so I do that.

If I go searching a bit, I find there is a section on the Contacts screen called "Only sharing with me" and that is where such people go. The confusing part of this flow is that to stop seeing their posts I have to click a little icon that only shows on hover, a circle with a line through it, that has tooltip of "ignore."

Having finally realized that ignore was what I needed to do, but that I don't mind sharing with them, I consider adding them back as a contact but I don't know if they'll get another notification or not (which is awkward if they do but I know nothing).

The end result is that we end up less social connection than we intended. I meant to turn this other account from a mutual relationship into a follower, but now we're totally disconnected with a side of awkward.