Add a Follow Button to your Facebook Profile

LET PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE

Facebook has an option to profile pages that would let people “subscribe” to your profile just like the way people follow you on Twitter. Whenever you post an update on Facebook with the privacy set as “public,” it will appear in the news stream of your subscribers or followers.

To put this in more simple terms, Subscribe or Follow is to Facebook profiles what Like is to Facebook pages. The only difference is that you get each and update when your “like” a Facebook page whereas you only get public updates when you “subscribe” to a Facebook profile.

ADD THE FOLLOW BUTTON TO YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE

If you would like to add the Follow button to your own Facebook profile, choose Settings and click on the Followers option the left sidebar. Now choose “Everyone” under the “Who can follow me” setting.

(you can only do this from your Facebook on your desktop, not the mobile app).

Before you do that, it may be a good idea to double-check that only stuff that you really want to share with non-friends is public.

To confirm, go your Facebook profile page, hit the “View As” button and then click the “public” link to see what updates in your profile are public. You can have unlimited number of followers to your profile but you can subscribe to a maximum of 5,000 profiles.

In the same Followers tab, you can also choose who can comment on your public Facebook posts. I choose “friends of friends” to keep the volume low.