How far you would go to connect with people on Facebook? I know, for your friends and family, you would love to connect with them rightaway to be notified about their new stories, events happen in their lives and never wanna miss a thing about them. But what if someone else interested in getting in touch with you on Facebook?
Let's say you are a blogger and you have blog readers out there interested in what you are recommending and sharing. But, you might be uncomfortable in connecting with all those folks on Facebook with all the security concerns and as you don't wanna mix important updates of your loving friends and family with other folks. How about letting them follow your public updates without keeping them in waiting list with unconfirmed friend requests?
Let's say you are a blogger and you have blog readers out there interested in what you are recommending and sharing. But, you might be uncomfortable in connecting with all those folks on Facebook with all the security concerns and as you don't wanna mix important updates of your loving friends and family with other folks. How about letting them follow your public updates without keeping them in waiting list with unconfirmed friend requests?
Subscribe for Updates?
Unlike Twitter, Google+ or such social networks, Facebook had limitations in connecting with people. Early days, the only way to connect was sending a friend request and awaiting for acceptance. It's true that Facebook is a place to connect with people you know and there were number of reports showing that befriending with unfamiliar faces could be risking your identity.
We already discussed about securing your hacked profile. But as the network grows rapidly, it was not just about known friends and family anymore. Facebook had to think of an alternative as people seeking a way to connect with people they are interested in, so they can view what they are sharing or talking about. Wouldn't you love to see what's going on with your favorite movie star? ;) That's where Facebook introduced Subscribe feature which now referred as Follow.
We already discussed about securing your hacked profile. But as the network grows rapidly, it was not just about known friends and family anymore. Facebook had to think of an alternative as people seeking a way to connect with people they are interested in, so they can view what they are sharing or talking about. Wouldn't you love to see what's going on with your favorite movie star? ;) That's where Facebook introduced Subscribe feature which now referred as Follow.
Facebook Follow
This feature is really awesome and I'd say a great solution to connect with favorite people rather than stay in touch with their public fan pages. With the Follow feature, anyone can hear from interested people on Facebook. Obviously, no one can talk directly with that person, but can see what's happening on his / her profile and like or comment on his public posts.
Once a Facebook user start following his favorite person, public updates from his favorite will show up on his news feed. But here that person needs to have subscriptions enabled to let people follow his/her public updates. If you are a one needs to let others follow your public updates instead of keeping bunch of unapproved friend requests, let's figure out how to enable subscriptions on your own Facebook profile too.
Once a Facebook user start following his favorite person, public updates from his favorite will show up on his news feed. But here that person needs to have subscriptions enabled to let people follow his/her public updates. If you are a one needs to let others follow your public updates instead of keeping bunch of unapproved friend requests, let's figure out how to enable subscriptions on your own Facebook profile too.
Steps:
1. Log in to your Facebook account.
2. Navigate to Followers settings tab.
3. Now select Everybody for the option Who Can Follow Me?.
4. Once you enable following your updates for everyone, you will able to manage settings on how your followers can interact with you on Facebook.
Follower Comments - Here you can specify whether your followers can comment on your public updates or not.
Follower Notifications - Specify whether you wanna notify when your followers interact with your public updates.
5. Now you are ready to go, and anyone can easily follow your public updates. Make sure to set privacy as Public when you wanna share an update with your followers.
More Information:
* You can learn about people who following your public updates by navigating to Followers page from About section or Friends tab.
* You can manage who can see your followers too. Navigate to your Friends tab and select Edit Privacy option from Manage button.
Then you can change privacy settings related to Followers.
* If you turn off follow, your followers will not see your public updates on their news feed. But once you turn it on, your existing followers will start getting your public updates again.
Enjoy :-)
