'following' on facebook

builder22 · 24 Dec 2013 at 20:08

what is the follow button you see on peoples facebook pages

how does it determine who you follow ?

what does it do??

wickfut · 24 Dec 2013 at 20:12

it lets you stalk people who aren't daft enough to accept you as a friend

SideWinder · 24 Dec 2013 at 20:14

Useful for the creative industry...things like blogging, acting, music and so on.

It's not stalking. It's social networking. Those people don't have to allow you to "follow them". I believe it can be disabled?

Hyburnate · 24 Dec 2013 at 20:14

wickfut said:
it lets you stalk people who aren't daft enough to accept you as a friend

This. Someone I used to know (lul) has about 15 thousand followers yet barely any friends.

Derek W · 24 Dec 2013 at 20:15

facebook has a help section......

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Dec 2013 at 21:00

It should be called 'stalk' not 'following'.

Mynight · 24 Dec 2013 at 21:02

I thought the whole point of Facebook was stalking? Going by the movie (we all know how realistic they are) it was originally conceived of for stalking.

builder22 · 25 Dec 2013 at 18:14

I'm just meaning on acrual friends pages, I think it says following on all friends now actually...

Jambo · 25 Dec 2013 at 20:27

It means their updates show in News Feed. It's the same for Pages.

Glaucus · 17 Jan 2014 at 20:40

All friends are followed, unless you find them annoying but for some reason you can't/don't want to unfriend them, then you can just unfollow them.

Follow by itself is more for pages. Facebook is more of a news feed for me, so I follow f1 , space, science, technology, food companies etc.

airwave99 · 19 Jan 2014 at 12:14

It makes Facebook a bit more twitter like, in that read updates from organisations and famous people without them necessarily reading updates from you.

Robosapien · 19 Jan 2014 at 14:58

airwave99 said:
It makes Facebook a bit more twitter like, in that read updates from organisations and famous people without them necessarily reading updates from you.

This, twitterizing facebook blatantly.

West · 19 Jan 2014 at 15:10

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BigglesPiP · 19 Jan 2014 at 15:18

Facebook trying to get into what G+ and twitter have. Everything I say on G+ is public, I mostly use it for the tech (3d printing) communities.

My Facebook is only for people I know, and occasionally to sneak a look at someone's Interested in/relationship status... so stalking.

FinglisHobbit · 19 Jan 2014 at 17:42

wickfut said:
it lets you stalk people who aren't daft enough to accept you as a friend

It's not really stalking... they can see if someone follows them, and you're only able to see their posts if they make them public.

Pawnless Endgame · 19 Jan 2014 at 17:53

SideWinder said:
It's not stalking. It's social networking.

I know that social networking means Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc, but what does social media mean? Is it just a buzzword that means the same?

Fuggan · 19 Jan 2014 at 18:43

Jambo said:
It means their updates show in News Feed. It's the same for Pages.

This. Alternatively you can unfollow you friends to not see their ****e in your NF.

Theophany · 19 Jan 2014 at 18:47

Monserrat said:
I know that social networking means Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc, but what does social media mean? Is it just a buzzword that means the same?

Media where content is created by users, rather than the traditional paradigm of having the media generate content for the users.

I would guess, anyway. I'm not a soulless marketing shill.