Q&A for How to Follow Someone on Instagram

You will have to send a request and wait for them to respond. You'll know they accepted your request when you can see their posts.

If your account is public, anyone can see who you are following. If your account is private, only people who follow you can see who you are following.

Yes, you can join Instagram just to follow someone, but you will still need to complete the registration process.

The activity you see is based on the user's profile privacy. If their account is private, you won't be able to see their activity, but you can if their account is public. Also, you can go at the notifications and click on Following and it will show some recent activities of people you follow.

No. If your account is public, then they can choose to follow you without you needing to accept it, but it will show in your notifications. If your profile is private, then the person trying to follow you will need to request it first.

If you've been following a lot of people at once, then that's probably why. This issue is usually resolved by waiting an hour or so, maybe longer, before trying to follow people again.

When you open Instagram, you'll automatically see any posts from the accounts that you're following on the front page.

You might have requested someone before they changed their username. It's also possible that you accidentally requested to follow them without realizing it.

Yes, "Requested" appears if you try to follow a private account. For a public account, it will simply say "Following."

On a profile, click the following button which is a drop-down menu, and click Unfollow. In your profile, click the button that says "following" and click "unfollow" on the profiles you want to unfollow. They won't receive any notification either way.

It is a blue button on the profile! Click it and you will be following them!

If you are following them, you can send a direct message to them if you want to talk privately. To talk to someone publicly, just post a comment or reply to one of their posts.

There isn't such thing as "friends" on Instagram, but you can definitely follow someone if they follow you first, and you can be friends with your followers.

The user would have to follow you before you can message them. If you want to talk to them, you could post a comment on one of their photos or videos or reply to their comment on someone else's post.

You should be able to follow them on both accounts since they should be separate. Try doing this by signing into your second account on a separate private browser session.

Yes, because you cannot tell who views a profile. However, if you view their story they may be able to tell.

You cannot follow your own account, so your name will appear without the word "following" next to it.

On your profile, click the button that says "following" and it will show every user you are following.

Usually because you don't post public content at all. Try posting some interesting photos that are meaningful to you, and commenting on rising posts, and someone might be interested.

Yes, but you have to follow them all over again on the other account.

Yes. Your searches are private. When you search for a profile, nobody will see the search results but you.

You'll find these people on your profile when you click "[number] following."

To send a secret (private) message, you must be following the user first. Click "follow" and you should be able to send a secret message to them.

Following a user on Instagram is completely free.

Is the user's account private? If yes, they might have accepted your request by accident, and therefore changed their mind and removed you. If a private user removes a user from their follower's list, the removed follower will no longer be able to view the private user's content. If some images on their profile simply fail to show up, it's either a glitch within the site or your device is very slow or overloaded at the time you're viewing the profile. It's definitely not blocking or restricting; blocking a user means they cannot see the page at all and restricting means they can still see everything on the page (if it's public) but can't comment on the posts.

Click the "Follow" button on their profile, the same way you would do for a public account. However, you need to have them approve you before you can see their content. If they don't approve you, you can't view their profile.

Yes. You would simply click the "follow" button on their profile to follow them. Unlike private accounts, you don't need approval from them.

You can post a comment to their images if they don't have comments disabled. There is no way to post pictures or videos anywhere except your own profile; so, if you don't own the account, you can't post them there.

Their userpage will not show up in search results or anyone's followers list. If you attempt to see a blocked user's page, it will say the page no longer exists or has been removed. You cannot follow a blocked user or see their userpage at all.

No, the follower will not be notified if you remove them by blocking and unblocking them.