Friend - Friends on Facebook vs. subscription

A friend is a connected person on Facebook. When we as a social media account make a friend request to another social media account on Facebook, we befriend each other. Through this formulation, Facebook expresses the connection between two users. A distinction is made between the term subscribe and befriend.

Difference between friend and subscription

Anyone who makes friends on Facebook or adds another person as a friend makes a closer connection than with a subscription. In our Facebook profile settings, under Privacy, we can specify what information is publicly available, for friends only, or actually for friends only. This shows that the status of a friend is the highest option to access data.

Anyone who subscribes to another channel on Facebook only wants to receive information. For example, with people in public life or simply with the secret flame from the neighbourhood.

The word friend refers explicitly to the social network Facebook. In other social networks, such as Snapchat, TicToc, Instagram, or YouTube, this link is called Follow or Subscribe. If you want to solve a friendship, you can entfreunden.

One then sees all his connected relationships in the friendship page. You can have a maximum of 5,000 friends on Facebook. After 5,000 friends no further adding is possible. Therefore, many people convert their private Facebook page into a Facebook fan page afterwards. On this Facebook fanpage people can subscribe to our channel, which means they don’t become friends. Each subscription will then receive our information. Our followers can still write us private messages if we enable this function.

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Friend vs Subscription

On Facebook you make friends with other users, this requires a connection from both sides
A friendship is a closer bond than a subscription
Who only wants to receive information of a user but also has the function to subscribe to this user
“Make friends” is only a term on Facebook, in other networks one subscribes or follows another person