How To See Who I Am Following On Facebook App

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If you have a Facebook account, you may know that you have more than friends on Facebook. You also may follow have people who you aren't Facebook friends with. You may follow celebrities or others who have a public Facebook profile.

You also might have people who follow you on Facebook, if your account isn't private. That's right, you might have a wide following on Facebook and not even realize it.

Finding who follows you on Facebook, and whom you follow, is quick and easy, if you know how to do it. With a few simple steps you can see this information and perhaps adjust your settings to make Facebook work better for you.

What Following on Facebook Is

You don't necessarily have to friend someone on Facebook to have their posts end up in your News Feed. If you follow someone on Facebook who isn't your friend, their public posts will appear in your News Feed, just as if they were your Facebook friend.

Similarly, if you've allowed others to follow you on Facebook, your public posts can appear in your followers' News Feeds, even if you're not Facebook friends with them. And you may not even know this is happening unless you check to see who is following you.

If you followed someone a while ago, you may not even remember that you follow them. And if you haven't checked your Facebook settings in a while, you may not remember that you allowed others to follow you.

It's a good idea to check your Facebook settings to see whom you're following and who's following you. Also, if you don't want people to follow you on Facebook, be sure to turn off the setting for others to follow you.

How to See Whom You Follow on Facebook

To see whom you follow on Facebook, go to your home page and click Friendsunder your cover photo. Then tap More in the Friends section, not the More above it. (No, I'm not making this up, Facebook really made it quite confusing.)

A drop-down menu will appear. Click on Following to see whom you're following.

If you're following someone, you can send a friend request to that person directly from the Following page (unless they've disabled this option in their Facebook account settings).

How to See Who's Following You on Facebook

If you have a public Facebook account, or have allowed followers, you can easily see who's following you on Facebook.

You can go to My Facebook Followers page to see a list of people who follow you.

Or you can see who is following you from your Facebook home page. As with seeing whom you're following on Facebook, you can see who is following you from the Friends section.

Go to your home page and click Friendsunder your cover photo.

Then tap More in the Friends section. Tap Followersto see how many followers you have and who they are.

If you don't see Followers then either you don't have any followers or you haven't allowed people to follow you on Facebook.

In the list of names, you'll see a Follow button next to people who will allow you to follow them. Click that to follow them. If they don't allow you to follow them, you'll see an Add Friend button so you can send them a friend request.

How to Turn Off the Ability for People to Follow You

If you don't want people to follow you, or to check your settings, go to your Facebook home page. Click the down arrow at the right side of the top tool bar to reveal a drop-down menu. Click Settings.

On the Settings page, click Public Posts in the left column. At the top of the Public Posts page is a section called Who Can Follow Me.

On the right you'll see either Public or Friends. If you have this set to Public, then people who aren't your friends on Facebook can follow you and see your public posts in their News Feeds. If you see Friends,then people who aren't friends with you on Facebook can't follow you.

Make sure this setting is what works best for you. Feel free to change it if you aren't comfortable with your current setting.

Your Thoughts

Do you follow people on Facebook? Do you allow others to follow you on Facebook? Have you checked your Facebook settings to see whether you've allowed people who aren't your friends on Facebook to follow you?

Share your thoughts in the Comments section below!

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*Follow the Leader photo (edited) courtesy of Walter Baxter via Wikimedia and Creative Commons

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