I am not sure but I think one reason is that you might have asked a lot of question and you might be more interested to track changes in some rather than others and, then, it makes sense to be able to track them via the favorite feature. After all if you hang around for a long time you might have asked a lot of question. This guess is confirmed by an answer on Meta Stack Overflow.
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