Are you an influencer or an individual on Facebook and you want to add a follow button?
Or maybe you want to remove the “Add Friend” button because you don’t want people to add you as a friend.
Many people have trouble adding the follow button because it is not enabled by default.
To enable it, you need to change a few of your privacy settings.
Otherwise, the follow button won’t show up on your profile.
Basically, the follow button allows the public to follow you.
When someone follows you, your public posts will be displayed in your news feed.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add a follow button on your Facebook profile.
To add a follow button on Facebook, you need to set the option “Who can send you friend requests?” privacy setting to “Your friend”.
You also need to set the “Who can follow me” privacy setting to public.
Once you’ve changed both privacy settings, your Facebook profile will have a follow button.
When someone selects the follow button, they will be able to see your public posts on your news feed.
However, you need to be 18 years or older to get the follow button.
If you’re under 18, make sure to change your Facebook age to 18 or older.
Otherwise, you won’t have access to the follow button on Facebook.
To change your age on Facebook, navigate to your profile > About > Contact and Basic Info > Date of Birth > Edit.
Here are 3 steps to add the follow button to your Facebook profile:
- Step 1: Set “Who can send you friend requests?” to “Your Friend”
- Step 2: Set “Who can follow me” to “Public”
- Step 3: View your profile as a visitor
Step 1: Set “Who can send you friend requests?” to “Your Friend”
To get started, open Facebook on your mobile device.
You can also use Facebook on desktop, but the screenshots in this tutorial are taken from the Facebook mobile app.
Therefore, the user interface will be different.
When you’re on Facebook, tap the menu icon on the bottom navigation bar.
Scroll down the menu until you find the “Settings & Privacy” tab.
Tap the “Settings & Privacy” tab to expand it.
Once the tab is expanded, you will see many options including “Settings”, “Privacy Shortcuts”, “Your Time on Facebook”, etc.
Tap on “Settings” to open the settings page.
After you tap on “Settings”, you will get to the settings page.
On the settings page you will see many headings including “Account Settings”, “Security”, “Privacy”, etc.
Scroll down the page until you find the heading “Privacy”.
Under the “Privacy” heading, tap “Privacy Settings” to go to your privacy settings.
On the privacy settings page, you will be able to edit your privacy settings such as who can send you friend requests, who can see your friends list, etc.
On the privacy settings page, you’ll see three headings including “Privacy Shortcuts,” “Your Activity,” and “How People Can Find and Contact You.”
Scroll down the page until you get to the heading “How people can find and contact you”.
The heading “How people can find and contact you” is at the bottom of the page.
Once you’ve found the title, tap the privacy setting that says “Who can send you friend requests?”.
There are two options for “Who can send you friend requests?” Privacy settings include “Everyone” and “Your Friends”.
“Everyone” means that people will be able to send you friend requests on Facebook.
“Your friend” means that only your friends can send you friend requests on Facebook.
By default, “Who can send you friend requests?” privacy settings are set to “Everyone”.
In order for the follow button to show up on your profile, you need to change “Who can send you friend requests?” privacy setting from “Everyone” to “Your friend”.
Select the “Friends of friends” option and tap the back icon to go back.
Step 2: Set “Who can follow me” to “Public”
The next privacy setting you want to change is the “Who can follow me” setting.
The “Who can follow me” setting is under “Public Posts”.
Under the Privacy heading, tap “Public Posts”.
The “Public Posts” page is where you can control who can follow you and comment on your public posts.
After visiting the “Public Posts” page, you will see the “Who can follow me” privacy setting.
This setting allows you to control who can follow you on Facebook.
There are two options for the “Who can follow me” privacy setting including “Public” and “Friends”.
By default, “Who can follow me” is set to “Friends”.
To allow others to follow you, you need to change the setting from “Friends” to “Public”.
Select the “Public” option to allow people to follow you on Facebook.
This will allow others to follow your public posts (similar to the “Follow” button on Instagram).
Step 3: View your profile as a visitor
The last step is to check if there is a follow button on your Facebook profile.
Now that you have changed your privacy settings, your profile will have a “Follow button”.
To check, navigate to your Facebook profile by tapping the profile icon on the bottom navigation bar.
Once you’re on your profile, tap the three dots next to the “Add Story” button.
After tapping on the three dots, you will arrive at the profile settings page.
On the profile settings page, you will see many options including “Edit Profile”, “Account Status”, “Archive”, etc.
Under the “Archive” preferences, you will see an option that says “View As”.
Tap the “View As” option to view your Facebook profile as a visitor.
After tapping “View as” you will see your Facebook profile as a visitor.
This time, instead of having an “Add Friend” button, you will see a “Follow” button.
People viewing your profile will now be able to follow you on Facebook by tapping the “Follow” button.
Congratulations, you have successfully learned how to add a “Follow” button on Facebook!
Conclusion
Allowing people to follow you on Facebook is very important, especially if you are an influencer.
This will allow others to see your post.
If you don’t add a “Follow” button on your profile, people who are not your friends on Facebook won’t be able to see your public posts on their news feed.
Adding a “Follow” button will allow others to see your posts on their news feed.
This will increase the reach, views, and engagement of your public posts.
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