How To Create Facebook Followers List

You can easily allow followers on Facebook If you want more than just your friends to be able to see your Facebook posts on your news feed.
If you change your settings, you can allow followers on your Facebook profile — these people will be allowed to see your public posts without actually being friends with you.
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We all know what Facebook friends are and how they work — one person makes a friend request, the other approves, and then they can see each other's profiles, like and comment on each other's posts, and show up on each other's news feeds.

Though you can restrict some of this access with certain privacy features, it is, at its foundation, a mutual relationship.

However, what you may not know is that this is not the only type of relationship you can have with other Facebook users. Facebook also has a follow feature.

Like on Twitter, people who only follow you can see your posts, but you don't see theirs automatically. Followers who are not your friends can only see public posts. This feature is great for those who are well-known online: You can get your messages out without having to clog your friends list with people you don't know.

If you want to allow followers on your Facebook profile, here's how to do it.

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How to allow followers on Facebook

1. Log into Facebook in a web browser on your Mac or PC.

2. In the top right corner of the website, click the down arrow to open the menu.

3. From the menu, click "Settings."

4. From the tab on the left hand side of the screen, click "Public Posts."

5. On the main menu, next to "Who Can Follow Me," click the drop-down menu and set it to "Public."

Set the "Who Can Follow Me" drop-down to "Public."

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