Just did a time trial today and now someone is following me (my profile that is, not on the bike)
A random person from another country.
I’m not known to them so curious why they are following me.
Is it possible to send a private message to another swifter, to ask them why they want to follow me when there is no connection.
What is the etiquette in removing a follower.
( I’m not a celebrity or anything, just seems a bit creepy someone following a stranger on zwift)
As is obvious I’m not into social media stuff, just want to ride my bike and compete when I can.
By all means remove them from your followers list, and consider marking your account Private so random people can’t just add you to their follow list. You are under no obligation ask someone you don’t know why they’re following you.
Obviously you have no requirements to do or not do anything–do what makes you happy and comfortable But I’ll say that imo there’s no general reason to suspect something creepy is happening when someone follows you like this. Early on when I started, I followed one rider because they dusted me in a race and I just thought “I’d like to see what that person does, that was pretty impressive”. I don’t ‘stalk’ people I follow, but when I see they’ve done a big ride I might check it out just out of curiosity.
It’s okay to not want that happening, but I don’t think it’s any reason to be suspicious of someone. That sort of thing happens a lot on Zwift, I think. I’m just an average random dude, and I get the occasional person I passed on the virtual road following me after a ride. (There’s some privilege operating there, as another guy myself. I don’t know how you identify, but I know some females who don’t take these things as casually as I do, get a little suspicious of some random guy following them, and I don’t blame them.)
Anyway, just wanted to give you that perspective. Peace
Anybody else think the end-of-ride “rode with" thing is a bit confusing in that it does not offer the option to give a ride on and you might end up following people almost by accident?
The person may not even selected to follow you specifically. They might have just clicked on a list of riders who gave them a ride on with no more thought than clicking a mouse. There is no etiquette on this matter. Just remove whoever you want to remove.
But I’ll say that imo there’s no general reason to suspect something creepy is happening when someone follows you like this. Early on when I started, I followed one rider because they dusted me in a race and I just thought “I’d like to see what that person does, that was pretty impressive”. I don’t ‘stalk’ people I follow, but when I see they’ve done a big ride I might check it out just out of curiosity.