Hear from people you’re interested in, even if you’re not friends
You've always been subscribed to friends. Now you can keep up with journalists, celebrities, political figures and other people you’re interested in too. You can get their public updates in your News Feed by going to their profile (timeline) and clicking on the Subscribe button. Once you subscribe, you can see their public posts in your News Feed.

Fine tune your News Feed
When you’re subscribed to someone, you can choose what to see from them in your News Feed. Use the Subscribed button at the top of someone’s profile (timeline) to choose the type of updates you’d like to see from them in your News Feed.

Click the Subscribe button on someone’s profile (timeline). (This button is only visible if the person has allowed subscribers.)

You can also decide what types of updates you want to see from the people you subscribe to.

1. Go to your profile (timeline) and click Subscriptions on the left side of the page, under your profile picture.
2. Click "Allow Subscribers" at the top of this tab.
3. After you click "Allow Subscribers," your settings appear. From here, you can edit who can comment on your public posts and when you’re notified about new subscribers.

You can also go to https://www.facebook.com/about/subscriptions to start allowing people to subscribe to your public updates.

Before you adjust your settings, you're subscribed to Most Updates for all of your friends. You can turn up or turn down the amount you hear from each person via the Subscribed button on their profile.

To fine-tune how much you hear from each friend in your News Feed, hover your mouse over the Subscribed button on a friend's profile. Decide how many updates you'd like to see in your News Feed from that friend as well as the type of updates you'd like to see.

Hover your mouse over the Subscribe button at the top of someone's profile (timeline) to adjust how frequently you see updates from them as well as the types of updates you see. Uncheck each type of update you don’t want to see in your News Feed:

Updates you get

• All Updates
• Most Updates
• Important only

Types of content

• Life Events
• Status Updates
• Photos
• Games
• Comments and Likes
• Other Activity
• Music and Videos

From your profile (timeline), click the Subscriptions link on the left of the page, under your profile picture. You’ll see the people you’re subscribed to there.

Friend Subscriptions: You’re subscribed to your friends’ public updates by default. That means you get their updates in your News Feed.

Public Subscriptions: You’re not friends, but you subscribe to get their public updates in your News Feed.

There are a couple ways to unsubscribe from someone:

• Go to that person’s profile (timeline). From there, hover your mouse over the Subscribed button and click Unsubscribe.
• You can also unsubscribe by clicking the report link next to a post you see in your News Feed and choosing Unsubscribe.

After you unsubscribe, the Subscribe button on the top of their profile (timeline) will reappear as an option.

You can also fine-tune the types of posts from someone you see. Hover your mouse over the Subscribe button on someone’s profile (timeline) to customize what types of posts you see from them.

You should only add someone as a friend when you know them personally. If you don't know someone personally but want to hear what they have to say, subscribing is a good option. When you subscribe to someone, you'll only be able to see their public updates.

If you don’t see the Subscribe button on someone’s profile (timeline), it means that they haven’t allowed people to subscribe to their public updates.

You’ll see the Subscribed button at the top of your friends’ profiles (timelines) by default (even if you haven't allowed people to subscribe to you). This means you already get your friend’s updates in your News Feed and can use the button to fine-tunewhat updates you see from them in your News Feed.

When you subscribe to someone, you can choose what type of updates you see see from them in News Feed. Use the Subscribed button on their profile (timeline) to hide their game stories, status updates and more. You can also control these stories directly from your News Feed by clicking to the right of the post.

If you’re getting too many updates, you can also unsubscribe from someone’s public updates.

The people suggested here allow anyone to subscribe to their public posts. These suggestions guess people you may be interested in based on many factors including the number of friends who also subscribe to them and how many interests you have in common.

When you’re about to post something to your profile (timeline) , set your in-line privacy control for the post as public. This will share your update with your subscribers and allow anyone to view the post.

If you’ve allowed subscribers, you can see the people who have subscribed to you by clicking the Subscribers box on your profile (timeline).

Friend Subscribers: Friends are subscribed to you by default, this means they may see your posts in News Feed.

Public Subscribers: These are people you're not friends with who subscribe to your public updates.

When you allow anyone to subscribe to your public updates, you’ll get to choose notification settings. If you do not edit your settings, you will only receive notifications when friends of friends become your subscribers.

If you don’t want a specific person to subscribe to you, or want to disconnect from a specific subscriber, you can block them at any time.

After you click Allow Subscribers, your settings will appear (see the Edit Settings button on your Subscribers tab). From there, you can edit your comment and notifications settings. If you want to update these settings later,

1. From your profile (timeline), click the Subscribers link on the left menu
2. Click the Edit Settings button in the top right

• Subscribers: Click "On" to allow people outside of your friends to subscribe to your public updates.
• Comments: Click "On" to allow people outside of your friends of friends to comment on your public updates.
• Notifications: Choose when you’d like to be notified when someone new subscribes to your public updates. Choose “No One” if you never want to be notified of new subscribers. If you’d like notifications about new subscribers, decide between notifications about Everyone or only Friends of Friends.

Please note: If you already allow subscribers, people who send friend requests that you ignore, delete or hide will become subscribers. People you unfriend will also become your subscribers. If you don’t want a specific person to subscribe to your public updates, or want to disconnect from a specific subscriber, you can block them at any time.

If you decide to allow subscribers, by default friends of your friends (including people you’re subscribed to) can comment on your updates. You also have the option of allowing anyone to comment on your updates.

To change who can comment on your public posts,

1. Click Subscribers from the left side of your profile (timeline)
2. Click the top right Edit Settings button
3. Choose On as your Comments setting

If your goal is to represent your business, brand, or product on Facebook, create a Page. Pages let you engage with people on Facebook, and offer tools (like multiple admin features and insights) that help you manage and track engagement.

If your goal is to share updates from your personal profile (timeline) with a broader audience, allowing subscribers is a good option. When you allow subscribers, anyone can subscribe and get your public updates in News Feed, even if you're not friends on Facebook.

You can have an unlimited amount of subscribers, and subscribe to as many as 5000 people. (You can have 5000 friends on your personal account.)

No. When you allow people to subscribe to your public posts, anyone you haven’t blocked can subscribe to you and see your public updates in their News Feed.

You will receive notifications when friends of friends subscribe to you unless you edit your notification settings for subscriptions.

If you don’t want a specific person to subscribe to you, you’ll need to block them from your account.

Not everyone has allowed subscribers. If you have turned this on already, you can decide to change your mind and no longer allow subscribers.

1. From your profile, click the Subscribers link on the left side menu
2. Click the Edit Settings button on the right
3. Next to the Subscribers setting, choose to turn subscribers Off

We plan to make this functionality available in the near future. Please be aware that when this becomes available:

• Your Page will be deleted when you migrate
• All the content on your Page—like apps, updates, photos — will be deleted