Facebook testing ‘subscribe to’ user feature - Telegraph I thought you already could subscribe to someones updates already. The difference here may be that you will be able to follow people, even non-friends like on twitter. It’s also possible that where before you could only subscribe via SMS, soon you could be able to get notifications on the site or have those people be given top priority in your news feed. In a way it seems similar to a like button for regular profiles instead of pages. I’m going to have to be convinced about this. I just prefer when people come to my own site to view my content where I have full control. Facebook are taking more and more control away from me in terms of content sharing. The privacy settings are ok but they need to do the same for content. Allow people to find my stuff and not have it forced upon them so to speak.
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Facebook testing ‘subscribe to’ user feature - Telegraph

I thought you already could subscribe to someones updates already. The difference here may be that you will be able to follow people, even non-friends like on twitter. It’s also possible that where before you could only subscribe via SMS, soon you could be able to get notifications on the site or have those people be given top priority in your news feed. In a way it seems similar to a like button for regular profiles instead of pages.

I’m going to have to be convinced about this. I just prefer when people come to my own site to view my content where I have full control. Facebook are taking more and more control away from me in terms of content sharing. The privacy settings are ok but they need to do the same for content. Allow people to find my stuff and not have it forced upon them so to speak.

Source: telegraph.co.uk