You've got a valid point. I don't particularly need to listen to any of these people, but some of them are amusing and witty, and they were all, at one distant time in my life, meaningful friends of mine. The intellectual inside me sees my high school buds as point samples into the minds of "real Americans" absent the biases of my normal daily associations. I find it valuable to understand that people, who I once respected, have had their brains reprogrammed with all sorts of things. If it could happen to them, it's clearly happened to many other people as well.

Maybe I feel sorry for them. Maybe I just want to save them. The only people I've actually "hidden" are the ones who are dull or weird (but not *good* weird), or incessantly post about stupid Facebook games, or who seem to do nothing but complain about trivial things (what Louis C.K. would call white people problems).