Follow feature is confusing

Follow feature is confusing

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It took me a long time to figure out how to follow someone because when you go to a user, there is a tab called Followers.

However, to actually follow you have to "Send Friend Request".

This seems like bad naming to me because on every other site, a friend request is two way, meaning you have to initiate, and the other person has to accept, whereas follow is an action that doesn't imply the person is your friend, only that you get notified when they post something.

Using the word followers in one place and friend in another is inconsistent.

Is it possible to change the "Send Friend Request" link to simply say "Follow This User" ?  It would be much more intuitive that way.