Facebook has millions of users, and you will likely meet people you were friends with a while ago or random people who end up becoming friends.
While it is easy to follow someone, various privacy settings restrict who can follow you on Facebook.
If you want to allow people to follow you, then you must change the privacy settings and set who should follow you.
This guide covers allowing people to follow you on Facebook using the mobile app and the desktop.
How To Allow People to Follow You on Facebook
Now that you’ve seen your list of friends, it’s time you modified your privacy settings to allow people to follow you.
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Here, we need to set the privacy option that restricts who can follow you on Facebook and set it to “Public”, allowing everyone to follow you.
Using a Computer
To manage who can follow you on Facebook, proceed with the steps below:
- Open the Facebook desktop app or access your account via a browser on your computer.Locate your profile at the top and click on it.Tap on the “Settings and privacy” option.Click on “Settings”.Scroll down the settings page and click on “Public posts”.Under the “Who Can Follow Me” option, click the drop-down button on the right and select “Public”.
That way, anyone on Facebook can follow your account.
Using Mobile Facebook App
If you logged in to your Facebook account using the mobile app on your Android or iOS, the steps below have your back:
- Access your Facebook account.Click on the menu icon at the top for Android and the bottom for iOS.Click the option for “Settings and Privacy” at the bottom.On the next window, click on “Privacy”.Scroll down and click the “Followers and public content” option.Choose the option for “Public” to allow anyone on Facebook to follow you.
With that, you’ve set your account to allow anyone, even those who are not your friends, to follow you.
Conclusion
Facebook is excellent at connecting old friends, and when you’ve allowed anyone to follow you, there are chances that you will end up meeting new people and increasing the number of followers that you have.
Thanks to this guide, you now understand how to allow people to follow you on Facebook.
