When you follow someone, it means you’re interested in what they’re reading, watching or listening to. Following someone with similar tastes is one way to discover new items in the catalog you may want to borrow. If you’re familiar with X or Instagram, you already understand the idea of following someone.
When people you follow contribute to the catalog, you’ll get a notification in your Community newsfeed. This newsfeed will show:
- items they added to their shelves,
- lists they created,
- comments and ratings they added to specific titles,
- lists or comments by others that they liked.
To follow someone
When you see a comment or list that you agree with or enjoy, do this:
- Log in to your account.
- Hover over the contributor’s username.
- In the popup that appears, click Follow.
Alternately, you can follow (or unfollow) another user from their profile page. Click on their username and click the button beside their name.
Note: The number of people you follow, and the number who are following you, are shown on your profile page. To manage the people you follow, click the Following link on your profile page to see all of the people you currently follow.
Permissions and Privacy
When another user follows you, or you follow them, there is no permission process. Users will see any content set to public. When the user posts something publicly, it will appear in the newsfeed of their followers.
Your followers can be viewed on your profile. This is public; there is no way to "secretly" follow.
You can control the visibility of your Recent Activity in your Account Profile.
- Log in to your account.
- Click on My Profile
- Under Privacy, click on My Feeds
- Check the box beside Mark your activity feed as private
- Click Save changes