User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Followed pages - a new way to stay up-to-date on your favorite wiki pages/@comment-1627453-20100507164144

To be honest I don`t understand the idea (or advantages) of this feature.

1) What is the reason for renaming "watch" to "follow"? What is the meaning of following?

2) Why is the list of followed pages is shown to everybody by default? Glad it is possible to turn it off (hide from everyone).