So I've never really understood how "following" works. I follow a few people, but how does that benefit me? What does it achieve? How do I actually make use of it?
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TheRealCallie
Princess Pink Love
If you go into your news feed, you can essentially stalk everyone you are following. It will show you literally everything they have done. That's it. It's just to stalk people. lol (at least as far as I've seen, anyway)
HellsLittleAngel
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It makes it easier to see their threads, posts, and to contact them easier. Only certain people allow others to view their profiles. Like me. I'm completely private unless you're following me. I don't let everyone see everything about my profile. It's kind of like Fb. Private profile vs. public.
That’s not correct. If I follow you here, I still can’t see your profile.
HellsLittleAngel
Well-known member
No, I have it limited to who can see what. So, if you click my profile and you're not following me, you can't see anything. The only thing you can do is send me a direct message and come on the actual threads and posts to see what I've posted or responded with, but you can't go to my direct page and look at my threads, posts, or following.
But I did click to follow you and STILL couldn't see anything. The only value following has is when you go to your own profile and click "news feed", that's when you see what the people you follow do.
TheRealCallie
Princess Pink Love
If you have it set that way, YOU have to follow someone for them to be able to see your profile. Doesn't matter what other people do. You can have everyone who comes to the site, members, people you follow or nobody.
I personally think it would just be easier to not put something you don't want the whole world to know on your profile, but that's just me.
I personally think it would just be easier to not put something you don't want the whole world to know on your profile, but that's just me.
Also, it wouldn't make sense that way if you think about it logically. Say if YOU want to limit who can see your profile and who can't, then YOU need to be in control of that function. If everybody could just circumvent it by following you, and suddenly they can see your entire profile, then the control is in literally everybody else's hands and not yours.
