To follow or to be friends?
When I joined AFF, I sent authors, bloggers, reviewers beta-readers that I like friend requests so I could have alert about their new stories and new blogs. But since it has been developed the "follow author" function visible when you are directly on a story or a blog, be "friends" with someone or follow someone is nearly the same. So now, the said friends could be far less numerous than the followed persons, assuming that friends are the one who are the closest. What is your opinion about this point ? I can only see two differences: "friends-only"on blogs or stories; and make someone more than a follower acquaintance but a "friend".