# What does following someone on Tapatalk active?

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**Created:** [December 10, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-following-someone-on-tapatalk-active/774319 "2016-12-10T00:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-following-someone-on-tapatalk-active/774319/1 "2016-12-10T00:39:52Z")

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Recently I noticed I’m being “followed” by certain Dopers on Tapatalk.

What does that mean?

Sent from my adequate mobile device using Tapatalk.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-following-someone-on-tapatalk-active/774319/2 "2016-12-10T00:57:11Z")

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If you follow someone on tapatalk, their posts will appear in your feed. That’s about it.

Tapatalk will automatically follow people whose posts you reply to, but you can turn this off under the tapatalk settings. It’s also fairly easy to accidentally hit the follow icon as you are scrolling through posts. So it’s actually fairly likely that you are being followed by someone who didn’t intend to follow you. But once in a while someone will find your posts interesting and may intentionally follow you because of that.