1,500 Followers ... what's all that about?

What does it mean?

That 1,500 like my pictures?

I'd say 1,490 don't even view my pictures.

If I favourite someone else's pic. they then occasionally feel obliged to favourite one or two of my pics ...so they favourite one or two from the last few to be on my Photostream.

They dare not take a look at my albums. Flickr is becoming as fake as Facebook is.