To celebrate the upcoming Valentine’s Day, Gather has created two background options that members can opt to have on their profiles. Check out mine and see for yourself. (You need to click refresh a few times and you’ll see both options.) It’s all part of the Love Out Loud Valentine’s Day Campaign launching on Monday, February 2nd and sponsored by Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. There’s much more to come next Monday – including candy heart pings and fun icons – but I wanted to fill you in on the great background options as soon as possible!
Want to get your own Valentine’s Day profile background? Here’s how!
All the pretty details:
- You must have an “About Me” section filled out to have a background uploaded
- Comment below and tell me which profile option you like (see the 2 options below)
- Comments must be made by Thursday, January 29th to be included
- Gather will update your profile with your chosen background on February 2nd
- The background will be up for 2 weeks (until February 14th)
- IMPORTANT: Because this is a new feature on Gather that is still being developed, once the background is up on your profile, you cannot make ANY changes to your profile (besides status and tagline) or else the background will disappear
- If you’d like to remove your background, simply make a change to your “About Me” section and the background will disappear
- The background may not appear for some, depending on the computer’s settings
Note: In order to upload the background to your profile page, Gather will require access to your account and embed a code in your “About Me” section. By commenting on this article and requesting one of the background options, you grant Gather limited access to your Gather profile for the sole purpose of uploading the background.
Profile Options (choose one):
Tiny Heart Background | Love Out Loud Heart Background |
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Comments: 181
This implies that Gather staff will sign in under a member's account to add the background to their profile page. Is this correct?
If so, will members need to provide their password to you, or are member passwords stored in an unencrypted form whereby they can be accessed and viewed by you?
Thanks!
We will not be asking for passwords, and we do not have access to view member passwords. They are encrypted. We can access member accounts to embed these backgrounds without the need for any password. Members give their permission for us to do so by commenting a background preference below.
Thank you!!
Love Out Loud For me Please
Thanks
No background for me. I am not much for contest or campaigns on Gather.
So is Gather going to let us put up personalized backgrounds in the future? This seems like an awful lot of work for the gather staff (not very efficient if you ask me) plus there are only two options.
While we are on the subject of personalization, are we ever going to be able to upload graphics for icons that move?
It just seems like gather is really behind the times with all the personalization options out there. And for everyone who wants this to be an an artsy community, that can be a HUGE problem with demographic you are trying to attract for members.
thanks :)
Go Steelers
Also if this goes over well. Will Gather do other ones in the future? Such as different theme for different months.
Wish we could embed out own background on home page. Could this possibly be a wish not too far into the future?
Thanks in advance! ;)
THANKS GATHER!
I would have liked the "Laugh Out loud" Oh well maybe next time.....
I hope all are having fun with the background things, I hope it is something we can do later for ourselves, like desktop wallpapers.