Forget adding friends you don;t know on Facebook, now you can Subscribe to them!
Facebook announced several weeks ago that they were making changes to the privacy settings that would now allow you to post on your profile to three different categories...“Public”, “Friends” and “Custom”.
The Public setting will be shown to anyone coming to your profile who is not already listed as your friends yet. This will be used as a way to posts things that you don’t mind people who are not your friends seeing should they come to your profile. (I've got stories but we'll save those for another time...) Anyway, look at it as a way to post things for other people to show you are interesting and that sending a friend request to you would be a good idea. I heard about a person who has been playing around with the idea of adding 5000 friends to his profile to see what that does to traffic to his sites. Right now he has a tab where he added a bunch of people he doesn't know to a List labeled “People I don’t know." Then he made it so that those on that list couldn’t see pictures of his kids nor anything else he didn't want them to see, but they would only see stuff he made public.
However, today it has been announced by Facebook that now people that aren’t your friends can “Subscribe” to you. This is huge!!!
So now if you allow people to subsribe to your Public posts they can see updates from you without you becoming their friend. You don’t have to be friends with people for them to see the posts on your profile and you can use this to grow your business.
I have no clue what this will do for Google+ but this may very well keep the average person from playing around with Google+ now. I mean for people who have been building their friends up for a few years and already have a following, why start all over on another site?
If you are a network marketer or business person I would allow this Subscribe ASAP so more people can follow you..
Here is the link for instructions on how to turn this on. https://www.facebook.com/about/subscriptions
If you want to subscribe to my Facebook profile, click HERE
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