What do subscribers see on facebook

On the other hand, the social network did not make it clear how page owners can track their number of subscribers. The data for page subscribers is also unavailable through the Insights API, but this could be because the percentage of people who subscribe to a page without liking it is still low. Aki is a content strategist, marketing consultant, and former assistant editor of SEJ. When not at work, she is busy SEJ » Social Media. Category Social Media. In September Facebook launched the ability for people to "Subscribe" to public posts from other Facebook users.

When FB launched their "subscribe" functionality, they completely changed their purpose and focus. Before "subscribe", the only way to connect to people was 1 to become "Friends" with them and expose all your personal info to them , or 2 spend hours putting everyone in lists and then excluding certain lists. For marketers, business leaders and "popular" people with tons of friends, this is nearly impossible -- and could be risky. I know a lot of people who quickly maxed out their 5, friend limit -- instantly barring anyone else on FB from interacting with them.

And I could limit the people I "friend" to the people I've actually met in person and know -- or the people I've known online for a long time and trust. While the change is a subtle one and doesn't change any functionality, I think it's a significant mental shift for users. When you subscribe to something, you're giving that site, app, business, etc. For example, if you subscribe to our blog you're telling us you want emails from us.

In a way, this means that in a "subscription" dynamic, the one in control of the relationship is the one being subscribed to. Whereas when you follow something or someone, it's up to the follower to control the interaction and delivery of the content. Twitter for example has always called it Followers. This is an entirely opt-in part of the new subscribe function. You can also activate the public subscriber option right now.

On Facebook, there are two different classes of subscribers: your friends and everybody else. Your friends are already subscribed to get your updates as they always have, and you, in turn, are subscribed to their updates. If you choose to allow public subscribers, then those people will only see the content you share that is marked public.

Jim will then see all the public updates that Zuckerberg shares such as status updates, game activity, photos and videos, and life events such as marital and employment status.

This is basically the follow-followers model that Twitter uses. Facebook will start showing suggestions of people you can subscribe to in a section on the right-hand side of your Facebook home page. You may also choose to subscribe to people by viewing updates that come through your News Feed.