What is a "Fan"?

cmason

In my control panel, in the Friends and Family section, I have a "fan" (thanks Doc!).

What is a fan? What does this mean? How is that different than a "friend", and how do I indicate that I am a "fan" of other smugmug sites?

Sheaf

cmason wrote:

In my control panel, in the Friends and Family section, I have a "fan" (thanks Doc!).

What is a fan? What does this mean? How is that different than a "friend", and how do I indicate that I am a "fan" of other smugmug sites?

These are people that added you as a friend or family. You can go to their homepage and add them if you so choose.

Andy

cmason wrote:

In my control panel, in the Friends and Family section, I have a "fan" (thanks Doc!).

What is a fan? What does this mean? How is that different than a "friend", and how do I indicate that I am a "fan" of other smugmug sites?

They're smugmuggers and admirers. They went to your page, and clicked on a link "this is my friend" and now you see them as a "fan"

Go ahead, try it

http://www.smugmug.com/help/friends-and-family

rainforest1155

cmason wrote:

What is a fan? What does this mean? How is that different than a "friend", and how do I indicate that I am a "fan" of other smugmug sites?

When you add someone to your friendlist, but this person doesn't have you on his' friendslist in return, you're a fan of this person.
To make 'Doc' from your example a friend you've to add him too.

Hope this helps,
Sebastian

EDIT: How's that for a record - 3 answears in 6 minutes after the thread was created.

Andy

Sheaf wrote:

These are people that added you as a friend or family. You can go to their homepage and add them if you so choose.

d0h - I'm so lagged. Thanks sheaf

cmason

Andy wrote:

d0h - I'm so lagged. Thanks sheaf

OK understand, but if I didnt ask here, I would never have guessed that...why not have a message or comment that says " Doc added you as a friend, click here to visit Doc's homepage" or something like that?

Also, can someone please put a note in the Friends and Family FAQ with info about how this works when someone adds you to their own list? At least a reference to 'fan". I had no idea this happened in this manner, and feel kinda bad....

docwalker

Uh oh... we are heading the route of myspace. First ranking photos and now fans. :-) Myspace seems to revolve around the number of friends you can add to your page.

I first saw the fan part when Markham helped me out with something this weekend. He started showing up as a fan. I tried to research it but gave up when I saw only friend and family as an option. I chalked it up to Markham working for SM and that he was watching our site to see what I did with it.

cmason, I added you as a friend after some of our mutual discussions here on dgrin. I liked your work. That friend link can possibly help your google ranking.

Andy

docwalker wrote:

Uh oh... we are heading the route of myspace. First ranking photos and now fans. :-)

Since October of 2004 we've had this feature
http://www.smugmug.com/aboutus/news.mg

docwalker

Some of us just have not paid attention to it. Also, A lot of people have customized so much that features like this get hidden.

Besides, I did not say it was a bad thing

Andy

docwalker wrote:

Besides, I did not say it was a bad thing

I know - just wanted to say that it's been 'round a while