Being "Followed" on the MyProfile system

[WolfBaginski Bearsfoot]

What the heck does it mean when I get an email saying I'm being "followed" by some resident you've never heard of?

I can sort of understand what it might mean in the context of sites such as Twitter, Facebook, or LiveJournal. You're putting stuff there which you want people to look at and read.  There's a whole different level of stalkerish creepiness about it when it happens in a virtual world.

I don't post stuff to those profile pages. I just don't. So I don't see what sensible reason there is for anyone to "follow" me.

Consider this to be the scream-and-leap phase of hearing footsteps behind me in a dark alley. 

[Dillon Levenque]

Well, if you never do anything on your Profile you're right: makes no sense to be followed but it's not really a big deal. Followers ONLY see what gets posted to your profile pages. And there is now a way to remove followers.

Log into my.secondlife.com, select 'People', select 'Followers', check the 'Remove' box.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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WolfBaginski Bearsfoot wrote:

What the heck does it mean when I get an email saying I'm being "followed" by some resident you've never heard of?

I can sort of understand what it might mean in the context of sites such as Twitter, Facebook, or LiveJournal. You're putting stuff there which you want people to look at and read.  There's a whole different level of stalkerish creepiness about it when it happens in a virtual world.

I don't post stuff to those profile pages. I just don't. So I don't see what sensible reason there is for anyone to "follow" me.

Consider this to be the scream-and-leap phase of hearing footsteps behind me in a dark alley. 

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I choose to believe that being followed means I'm intellectually and sexually irresistible to someone.

Stop laughing!

ETA: I mean it!

[Charolotte Caxton]

You can set your privacy preferences so that no one can follow you.

https://my.secondlife.com/settings/privacy

Follow means they can see what you post to your feed in their feed. 

https://my.secondlife.com/

[Charolotte Caxton]

Here is where you can see who has chosen to follow you and also where you can remove them from doing so if you so wish.

https://my.secondlife.com/settings/followers

[Cinnamon Mistwood]

That is why I follow you, Maddy.

@ Wolfbaginski - You can also just turn your feed off in the privacy settings.  If no one can see it, no one can follow you.  This is in 2 separate drop down menus.  One is-  Who can see my feed? (choose 'nobody') and who can post on my feed.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Even if your feeds are available to Nobody, there is still the option to Follow you. You can disable anyone from following you by choosing Nobody under Follow Info in the Privacy Settings.

[Thinkerer Melville]

It is like being followed on Twitter.  A follower can see your public posts when you make them.  If you use MySL to post about events and other things you like, you probably want people to follow you. If you don't post on MySL, there is nothing for a follower to see.  If you dont want people to see something, don't put it anywhere on the internet.

TKR

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

True, and if you don't want to receive emails from Linden Lab informing you that you are being followed, you can set Follow Info to Nobody under Privacy Settings.

[Qwalyphi Korpov]

The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Cinnamon Mistwood wrote:

That is why I follow you, Maddy.

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I'm going to hell, you know. Follow at your own risk.

[Chelsea Malibu]

I thought I was being followed then I realized I had toilet paper on my shoe.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

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Qwalyphi Korpov wrote:

You can stop someone from following you.  Unless they are your friend.  Then you can't tell if they are following you or not.

You can set it so no one can start to follow you.  Will that prevent friends from following you?  I thinks so.  Will it stop existing friends who were following you from continuing to follow you?  No.

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Actually you can see anyone following you whether they are a friend or not.  You can also remove anyone that is following you now too without effecting your friends list.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Chelsea Malibu wrote:

I thought I was being followed then I realized I had toilet paper on my shoe.

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If I ever run out of toilet paper, I'll know who to follow ;-)