title: Nodejs attempting to populate user, however no success
body: <p>For my application, I successfully manage to reference other documents, and store them in my database(mongodb) as an objectid. However when attempting to use .populate the population is not occurring. Here is my population code:</p>
  
  <pre><code> User
      .find()
      .populate([
          {path: 'followers'},
          {path: 'following'}
      ])
  </code></pre>