Your SharePoint newsfeed is where you can see what your co-workers are doing throughout your work day and share ideas and observations as they occur to you. Depending on your newsfeed settings, the feed may also send emails to you to notify you of events, such as when someone mentions you in a post, and it may show your activities, such as when you’ve started following someone. You control email notifications and which of your activities you want to share with others.
Note The features described in this article depend on whether your organization has set up or customized personal sites and user profiles. For more information, see your administrator.
Update your newsfeed settings
The Newsfeed Settings page of your profile lets you select activities that you want to be notified about in email (such as when someone has started following you), determine whether others can see your list of people that you’re following or your list of followers, and select which activities you want to share with others.
To change your newsfeed settings:
- Click your name at the top of a SharePoint or Office 365 site in your organization, and then click About Me.
- Click edit your profile to display the Edit Details page.
- Click the ellipsis (…), and then click Newsfeed Settings.
- Edit your Followed #Tags, Email Notifications, People I follow, and Activities I want to share in my newsfeed information as needed.
- Click Save all and close.
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Update or review your followed tags
Tags that you follow reflect topics that interest you. Your followed tags appear in the Followed #tags list on your Newsfeed Settings page. When you follow a tag, an item automatically gets added to the list. To add an item directly to your Followed #tags list, type # followed by a topic. For example, you could type #sharepoint to start following #sharepoint and see newsfeed posts that reference SharePoint. To remove an item from the list, delete it from the text box or stop following a tag.
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Update your email notification settings for newsfeed announcements
You can be notified by email when social events happen that affect you. You can get email notification of these events when someone starts following you or when someone mentions you in a newsfeed conversation, for example. To change which events you’ll be notified about in email, you can click About Me at the top of the page and edit your profile settings, as described in Get email notifications about newsfeed items.
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Show or hide the people you follow
When you follow people or when others follow you, this information may appear in your profile in the lists of people you follow and people who follow you. This information may be visible to others who view your profile, depending on your newsfeed privacy settings. For more information, see Update your newsfeed privacy settings.
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Select the activities you want to share
You can choose which of your activities will appear to your followers in their newsfeeds and what personal information you want to share in your public profile. For example, you may not want others to see when you’ve started following someone or when it’s your birthday. For more information, see Update your newsfeed privacy settings.
Tip To protect your privacy, most of your privacy settings hide your information by default, unless your administrator has customized these defaults. To make the most of the social features available on team sites and personal sites, we suggest that you update your settings to share at least some of your information if your organization’s privacy settings allow you to do so. Keep in mind that sharing information, such as the people and documents that you follow, helps you develop your network of contacts and data, and helps establish your reputation as a person of influence.
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