Re: verb for "gaining followers on Facebook" ?

Subject: Re: verb for "gaining followers on Facebook" ?
From: Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>
To: "TechWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:05:40 -0400


>So yes, if you are the followER, you're "friending" someone. And so if
>you're the followEE, you've been "friended". But "friended" is certainly
>past tense, so how would you say that someone is looking to be friended?

In reading the thread it seems that the relationship is one way, that
followers will receive items in their news feed that are posted by the
followed. In which case I'd use "share" as in "Foo 2.0 allows user to share
jabberwocky on Facebook."

After all the app isn't going to gain any friends, followers, or likes --
the subject and content of what is shared does that.. Unless of course Foo
2.0 is generating the content as well.

-Greg

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References:
verb for "gaining followers on Facebook" ?: From: Monique Semp
Re: verb for "gaining followers on Facebook" ?: From: Monique Semp

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