Did you recently saw a green following button when visiting a profile on Instagram?
If so, you might be wondering what the green following button means.
Other profiles might contain a normal following button, but there might be one that has a green text.
In this article, you’ll learn what the green following button means, how to get it, and more.
By the end of the article, you should know the meaning behind the green following.
Table of Contents
- What does it mean when the following button is green on Instagram?
- How to get the green following button
- What does it mean by following on Instagram?
- Does the green following mean that I’m on the person’s close friends list?
- Conclusion
What does it mean when the following button is green on Instagram?
When the following button is green on Instagram, it means that you’ve added the person to your Close Friends list.
A green following button means that you’ve added the person to your Close Friends list.
If the person is not on your Close Friends list, the following button will not be green.
If you tap on the following button, you’ll see a star with a green background on the right side of the “Close Friend” section.
This means that the person is in your Close Friends list.
However, if you didn’t add the person to your Close Friends list, the following button would not be green.
If you tap on the “Close Friend” section, they will be removed from your Close Friends list.
Normally, if you were to tap on the following button, the “Close Friend” section would be “Add to Close Friends List” instead.
Once you added the person to your Close Friends list, the section will change into “Close Friend”.
In addition, the “Following” text will turn green, which indicates that the person is on your Close Friends list.
How to get the green following button
To get the green following button on Instagram, you need to add the person to your Close Friends list.
To get the green following button, you need to add the person to your Close Friends list.
You can do so by tapping on “Following” > Add to Close Friends List.
However, you need to follow the person first in order to add them to your Close Friends list.
If you’re not following the person, you won’t be able to do so.
Once you followed them, tap on the following button and select “Add to Close Friends List”.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how you can do this:
- Go to the profile of the person that you want to add to your Close Friends list.
- Follow them if you haven’t already by tapping the follow button.
- Tap on the following button, and a dropdown menu will open.
- Tap on “Add to Close Friends List”.
After you added them to your Close Friends list, the following button will be changed to green.
This is an indicator that the person is now your close friend on Instagram.
Do note that you cannot add someone to your Close Friends list if you’re not following them.
So, in the event that the person’s account is a private one, you’ll have to wait for them to accept your follow request in order to add them to your Close Friends list.
In addition to the green following button, stories that you post can now be exclusive to your close friends.
In other words, you can post stories exclusively to your Close Friends list.
If you do so, your close friends on Instagram will see a green ring around your story when you post it.
What does it mean by following on Instagram?
Following means that you’re following the person on Instagram.
Following means that you’re following the person on Instagram.
This means that you’ll see their posts and stories on your feed and timeline respectively.
When you’re following someone on Instagram, their posts will be shown on your feed.
In addition, you’ll be able to see the stories that they post on your story timeline.
Before you follow someone on Instagram, their profile will have a follow button.
After you follow someone, the follow button will change to the following button.
If you were to tap on the following button, you are given multiple options.
The first one is to add the person to your Close Friends list.
By tapping on it, the following button text will change to green.
Does the green following mean that I’m on the person’s close friends list?
No, the green following does not mean that you’re on the person’s Close Friends list.
The green following button does not mean that you’re on the person’s Close Friends list.
It just means that you’ve added the person to your Close Friends list.
A common misconception is that the green following button means that you’re on the person’s Close Friends list.
This misconception has been busted as it is not true.
The green following button only means that you have added the person to your Close Friends list, and not the other way around.
If someone added you to your Close Friends list, their following button will not change to green.
In addition, you will not be notified that the person has added you to their Close Friends list.
The only way that you can tell if someone added you to their Close Friends list is if their story has a green ring around it.
If the person’s story does not have a green ring, it means that you’re either not on their Close Friends list, or they haven’t posted a story exclusively for close friends.
Conclusion
In this article, you’ve learned the meaning of the green following button on Instagram.
You also learned how to get it on someone’s profile.
Here are the key takeaways from this article:
- If you see a green following button on someone’s profile, it means that you’ve added the person to your Close Friends list.
- The green following button does not mean that the person has added you to their Close Friends list.
- To turn the following button green, you need to add the person to your Close Friends list.
Hopefully, this article has given you a better understanding of what the green following button means on Instagram.
Further Reading
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> What Does “Comments on this post have been limited” Mean on Instagram?
> Why Are My YouTube Email Notifications Not Working?
Author: Lim How Wei is the founder of Followchain. Feel free to follow him on Instagram.
