@Bess Barber Well.....I have no particular problem with it, unless of course the intent be lewd and lascivious! Frank
I came here to get this question answered for myself, because I Followed someone for the first time and expected to receive some type of notification of their posts. I went on a XenForo forum and found a thread that confirms the Follow feature merely adds their posts to your News Feed. In fact, the subtitle under Your News Feed says "Activity stream for all users your follow." I also [think I] found out that their running with the Invisible status does not affect this functionality, but you CAN block others (not at the Member level, but at a high level) from adding you to their News Feed (if I understand the following thread extract and the Privacy options properly): The options under Privacy/Edit Your Personal Details/(People who may...) Receive your news feed are: -All Visitors -Members Only -People You Follow Only "Receive your news feed" has a top-level checkbox. I assume that if I uncheck it, no one at all may add me to their Newsfeed. I also assume "Newsfeed" to be nothing more than a log of the posting activity of those Followed users (Comments they've made and Likes they have left.)