# Followers

Followers represent a social relationship between two Profiles. Unlike [Friends](https://manual.namazustudios.com/v3/core-features/friends), two [Profiles](https://manual.namazustudios.com/v3/core-features/users-and-profiles) make a Follower/Followee relationship and the relationship can be much more loosely defined. 

Followers rely only on Profiles, and therefore all information in the Follower/Followee relationship is public information. The APIs dealing with Followers return [Profile](https://manual.namazustudios.com/v3/core-features/users-and-profiles) instances.

Followers are meant to allow for casual relationships among users of a particular application. Because they operate strictly on Profiles and public information, there is no need for modeling Following as a mutual relationship. Either User may follow or unfollow others as they see fit.