Following people

Follow a person to keep up-to-date with their latest updates.

About this task

When you are interested in another user's activities and status content you follow them. For example, if you want to see what someone in your organization is blogging about, you can follow them to view their latest updates.

You do not need to add a person to your network to follow them.

Following does not require the approval of the person that you want to follow.

You can see who you are following by selecting My Network > Following. You can see who is following you by selecting My Network > Followers. You cannot remove people from the Followers list, and cannot block prospective followers.

Procedure

To follow a person, complete the following steps.

Open the profile page of the person you want to follow. For example, click the Directory tab in Profiles and enter the person’s name.
Click Follow on the person’s profile page.
Note: The option to follow a person is also available when you invite that person to join your network.

What to do next

You can set your email preferences so that you receive regular notifications about the people that you are following. For more information, see Setting email notification preferences. You can also check the latest updates for the people that you are following from the Home page by the All Updates tab. For more information, see Using the Updates tab.

To stop following a person, open their profile page and click Stop following.

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