I also have a couple followers that I don't know. I don't know why they chose to follow me, and I don't recall seeing them post on any of the threads I have. Odd.

I just checked and I have ten followers, all FB friends. I clicked on one of the names and they're on Houzz. Does this mean they are following what I post? Because if they are, I'm changing my screen name today.

How would they know me here?? I don't use Oakley anywhere and I've told no one I post here.

Would someone please "follow" me and tell me if you get notifications if I post? I don't like this. It's creepy.

I went into my privacy settings and it has a box to check if I want someone to follow me. I did not check that box, so how am I getting followers?

Its probably an automatic check, like many of the other boxes. Go into settings and uncheck the boxes you dont like.

RA, no boxes are checked, that's why I'm concerned. Would you click on my profile and see if my discussions are listed?

I have 0 Followers and 10 Following. Whew, I got it mixed up! But I didn't follow anyone! lol

I cant see anything when I click on your profile.

Thanks to the OP for bringing this up, I had never checked. Have no followers, don't want any. But I did have to uncheck some boxes. now, I need to go see if I am following someone else, , accidentally, like Annie said.

I've accidentally hit follow a few times, then unfollow. If I'm following anyone now, it's by accident.

Checking my account I see that I'm following 3 posters - not intentionally of course so I must have clicked something in error.

I had 3 and was able to turn the feature off entirely.

When you go to click on a thread here, if your cursor is kind of over a poster's name you get a popup where your cursor is automatically over "follow." It's very easy to click that by mistake and never know what you've done. I've clicked it several times and had to go back to unfollow. I suspect that most following here is accidental.

For a few weeks after Houzz took over, you had to follow someone to message them.

I've done it too - accidentally clicked 'follow', that is. As writersblock says, it can happen when you click or hover over a member's name & the 'follow' button is right above that, so really easy to do unintentionally - esp. on a tablet or phone, I'll bet.

I also immediately corrected it.

I have to check if I've unintentionally checked anyone. Not sure what "following" actually means, but find the term unsettling. I'm not interested in following anyone.

Yep, kind of what I figured. My " follower" is a very nice regular here. Now I must go check MY account.

I have also unintentionally wound up following someone. I don't know why but Houzz has made it so that the cursor hovers and brings up everything now.

I do check periodically to make sure I'm not following anyone.

So to all - I'm really not following you even if the indications say otherwise. :)

I too am afraid I am following someone and I don't want to! I went to my profile page, but I don't see anything there that has to do with following. Help please.

Yep I just checked and somehow I was following prairiemom. Sorry prairiemom. I am no longer following you. :)

littlebug - when you click onto Your Houzz in the top right corner - don't go into your profile but rather click onto Your Houzz again and the follow/following is on the left hand side of the page.

You have to go into Advanced Settings to change your following options. There's "don't show it on my profile page" but there's also don't allow it.

Just changed my settings and that deleted my followers so apologies to the 6 of you who accidentally followed me!

I was accidentally following weedyacres, so I unfollowed. I do love to see all her awesome DIY projects!

Ack! I was following 3 people! And I didn't even know it! So I unfollowed.

OK, here's my question: since I was (unintentionally) following these people, what benefit was I supposedly gaining from that? I didn't get anything from Houzz about their posts. Unless I just didn't know where to look for such notifications.

If you click on Your Houzz, the Your Updates area shows the posts made by you and any members you are following (ETA plus some follow-up posts here too, I think). If you click Activity, it shows just your posts, plus new posts entered after yours in those threads, and likes you have clicked, etc.

Hmmm, I seem to have been unintentionally following two people as well. I also have two followers - I'm guessing they've done so unintentionally as well - since I really don't think I'm that interesting.

I have a few I am following and I have lots following me. Originally when houzz took over we had to be following each other to be able to message each other. I certainly don't have a problem with following or followers. My guess is some of those following me are keeping up with my flooding progess. I have lots of followers on pinterest and that certainly doesn't bother me either, I am not following many on pinterest. I don't do Facebook but those that do usually have lots of followers etc. I don't understand why it is bothersome to have a member following you here? I had no idea I had those following me but it's fine with me. Not like they would find out anything more about you than what you are posting publicly.