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Subject:RE: verb for "gaining followers on Facebook" ? From:<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 1 May 2012 13:24:03 -0700
Right. What Lauren said.
As unsatisfactory as "Like" and "Friend" are for a formal description document, they are what have been established. In the context of the original question though, they just sound plain silly. Yuck!
-BH
-----Original Message----- From: Lauren
On 5/1/2012 11:33 AM, Monique Semp wrote:
> Iâm hoping that thereâs just a less wordy way to say âgains followers on Facebookâ...
Friend (as in, to friend), friending, subscribing, and like are all FB verbs.
FB limits how many friends a person can have to 5,000, but likes are unlimited. Only people can be friended and they can allow subscribers; pages can be liked and subscribed to; groups can be joined; and questions can be followed.
> And I'm trying to describe, from the followEEs point of view, the
> action of gaining followERS.
That's friending.
On 5/1/2012 11:58 AM, Monique Semp wrote:
> But... none of these suggestions are one-word verbs that implicitly
> include the rest of the phrase I included in the quotes: "gain a
> follower". They're all replacements for the "gain" part, but then you
> still have to say what was gained (or lured or seduced, etc.)
"Friend"! It is a verb on FB. If it is a person, then that person will want to be friended, liked, or subscribed to (if allowing subscribers is enabled). If it is a business or a product page, then that page can be liked or subscribed to.
Just ignore the peppering of snarky responses you received.
And people can "follow" someone on FB, but FB does not use the term "follow" for people or pages.
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