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• About My Gather
• My Friends Feed
• My Interests Feed
• My Groups Feed
• Gather Essentials Feed
• All of Gather Feed
• My status
• My Activities
• Task alerts
• Mail alerts
• Group recommendations
• Friends of My Friends

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My Gather

About My Gather
Note: If you were a Gather member before November 2, 2009, you can still access the old version of the My Gather page. The descriptions in this section (and in all of Help) only describe the new version of this page. Your My Gather page helps you keep track of the latest that's happening with your friends, your interests, your groups, and all the other stuff on Gather that you care about. The My Friends Feed allows you to see the latest activities by your friends. The My Interests Feed shows any content shared about the things that you selected as your interests. The My Groups Feed lists the latest content shared to the groups to which you belong. The Gather Essentials Feed shows the content recently shared to Gather's editorially controlled groups. If you want to see all content, popular, or staff picks, you can view the All of Gather Feed.

In the site navigation from the My Gather menu, you can access your profile, your content, comments, friends, groups, and account settings.

My Friends Feed
Your My Friends Feed, located on your My Gather page, shows all of the latest comments, posts, photos, and videos shared by your friends. It also shows, by default, the recommendations and member updates from your friends. The member updates include the new friends they make, their profile updates, pings they leave and receive, and the groups they join, create, and add group comments to. To customize who you see in the friends feed, just click "settings" in the My Friends Feed area. Select the "selected friends" radio button to add and remove the friends you want to keep up with. Once you have customized who you can see in your friends feed, you can choose to see activities for all of those friend sets or for one of those friend sets by selecting it in the left-hand column. You can choose to see or not see any activity for your friends by checking or unchecking the activity checkboxes above the feed.

My Interests Feed
Your My Interest Feed, located on your My Gather page, shows all of the latest posts, photos, and videos shared on the topics that matter to you. Into photography? Big fan of ballet? Just enter one of those keywords into the search box located in the left-hand column below the My Interests Feed title, and you'll get up-to-the-minute posts, photos, and videos about the very stuff you love. Interested in reusing an interest that you entered? You can save the term you searched for to your interests feed. To customize your interests, just click "settings" in the My Interests Feed area. Enter up to 20 interests and put them in any order that you like. Once you have customized your interests, you can choose to see activities for all of your interests or for one of those interests by selecting it in the left-hand column. You can choose to see or not see any content type for your interests by checking or unselecting the activity checkboxes above the feed.

My Groups Feed
Your My Groups Feed, located on your My Gather page, shows you all of the latest posts, photos, and videos shared into the groups you are following. To customize the groups you include in the feed, just click "settings" in the My Groups Feed area. Select the "selected groups" radio button to add and remove the groups whose activities you want to keep up with. Once you have customized which groups you can see in your group feed, you can choose to see activities for all of those groups or for one of those groups by selecting it in the left-hand column. You can choose to see or not see any content type for your groups by checking or unselecting the activity checkboxes above the feed.

Gather Essentials Feed
The Gather Essentials Feed, located on your My Gather page, shows all of the latest posts, photos, and videos shared to the Gather Essentials groups. The Gather Essentials are moderated by the Gather staff and contain some of the most engaging content and conversations for the categories that they represent. You can choose to see all content for all of the Essentials or for one of the Essentials by selecting it in the left-hand column. You can choose to see or not see any content type for the Essentials by checking or unselecting the activity checkboxes above the feed.

All of Gather Feed
The All of Gather Feed, located on your My Gather page, shows all of the latest posts, photos, and videos shared on Gather. You can view all content shared on Gather, or you can just view the most popular content or Gather staff picks. You can choose to see or not see any content type by checking or unselecting the activity checkboxes above the feed.

My status
Your status lets people know what you're doing now. Update it frequently to keep your friends up to date. You can update it on the My Gather page or on your profile page. If you update it on the My Gather page, you can share it to Facebook and Twitter.

My Activities
My Activities, located on your profile page, shows your visitors all the public stuff you've been up to. They'll see the posts, photos, and videos you share, as well as what you comment on, the new friends you make, your profile updates, pings you leave and receive, and groups you join and create.

My posts, photos, and videos
Every post, photo or photo album, and video you share lives in your My Gather area. There, you'll also find sections for your profile, comments, friends, and groups. Just think of your My Gather area as your whole Gather world -- right at your fingertips.

Task alerts
The task alert in the site navigation displays an alert when you get friend requests or group invitations from other members, or if you have comments that you need to moderate. If you're a group owner or moderator, an alert will also display when you have pending group moderation tasks. There is separate alert in the site navigation that tells you the number of unread messages you have in your Gather mailbox.

Mail alerts
There is an alert in the site navigation that tells you the number of unread messages you have in your Gather mailbox. You can click on this alert at any time to access your personal Gather private messaging mailbox.

Group recommendations
on your My Groups page, you'll see in the right-hand column a set of groups recommended just for you. Clicking "view all" will display up to 20 recommended groups. Click "join group" to add the group to your My Groups list, or "no thanks" to keep it from showing again. These groups will change from time to time as you use the site.

Friends of My Friends
Ever wondered who else you know who might be on Gather? On your My Friends page, you can view Friends of My Friends to help you find acquaintances you have in common with your friends so you can send them a friend request. To keep a member from showing up again in this area, just click "no thanks" and that person will no longer be displayed as a friend recommendation.