"Follow" someone 27

Posted by Tim
on Sunday, May 18
Have you found someone who has the same tastes as you? Or perhaps you think they really write great reviews? You may not know or be friends with that person, but you want to know when they add a new book or write a new review.

Last night, we pushed a new feature that allows you to "follow" another ReadingSocial user. If you choose to follow others, relevant information such as what books they've added or what reviews they've written will show up on the news feed on your home page.

To follow someone, you need to simply navigate to his/her bookshelf and click the "follow" button on the image module. As always, please don't hesitate to provide suggestions and feedback!





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  1. Kristen – May 19, 2008 @ 11:35 AM
    Good idea. I've definitely found people in the past who shared a lot of my tastes. But it was difficult to keep up with them as it required that I navigate to whatever messageboard happens to link to them. This seems a lot easier. And hell this is for a social networking site, so we should be able to socialize.
  2. sharon whittle – May 19, 2008 @ 04:16 PM
    Hi i just got your message on the book review, now i'm intrigued?
  3. Krish – May 20, 2008 @ 11:18 AM
    Does the "Follow" feature over-ride the news feed settings of the person followed? Do the folks being "followed" know about their "followers"? This is a feature that can be used to solicit reviews and thoughts by the "followers" - in the sense, when someone who is "following" me sees that I added a new book as "already read", without adding a review, they can request me for my thoughts on it. I will be very interested in knowing what someone who I "follow" thought of a particular book.
  4. milena – May 20, 2008 @ 12:57 PM
    wow perfect idea! there is thousands of books we would like to read,but sometimes that s hard to find them,if we FALLOW somebody who have similar taste with us,we can simply find what we may read;)
  5. Vicki – May 22, 2008 @ 02:39 PM
    here's what I can't figure out.... if I have the app installed on Myspace, for example, HOW do I link up with those friends? I can see how I can pull up a random site user and follow them, but I can't figure out how to link up with those that may only be using it through Myspace or Facebook or something like that.
  6. Sraman Chatterjee – May 23, 2008 @ 07:03 AM
    I cannot understand one thing.how can I link up with other people in reading social? if i start following somebody,how shall I be able to share my views regarding certain books with that person? and one thing,how do I know that what other users are thinking about my reviews and their own thought regarding it? I have newly joined here and quite confused about how to link up with other readers. plz help me out:)
  7. Tabetha – May 23, 2008 @ 05:17 PM
    This is interesting! I have already made facebook friends with someone who shared many of the same books as me!
  8. Leónida Oliveira – May 31, 2008 @ 12:41 PM
    To meet peoplle, ask informtion... the word means that you are connected. a true friend never walks away.
  9. Leónida Oliveira – May 31, 2008 @ 12:41 PM
    To meet peoplle, ask informtion... the word means that you are connected. a true friend never walks away.
  10. Manuela Granziol – June 03, 2008 @ 05:07 PM
    Yes, I love the idea! But do I have to join 'reading social'?
  11. akanksha asthana – June 07, 2008 @ 09:13 AM
    its the good idea.
  12. Rae – June 09, 2008 @ 12:25 AM
    Great idea! I like to read other's comments on books.
  13. Frederick – June 11, 2008 @ 04:52 AM
    This feature is great, long time I was waiting for. By the way, maybe it's already there and I didn't see it yet, is there a way to find people with the most books in common with you ? Thanks for the effort put in the site, it's really great.
  14. Kelli Anne – June 13, 2008 @ 06:50 PM
    I understand how the follow feature works, but I have friends who have signed up with Reading Social, but they don't display on my page as a friend who reads. How do I fix that?
  15. Michael – July 01, 2008 @ 05:01 AM
    How do I find the top five people who have the creates commonality of books with me? Those are the people that I would like to follow.
  16. Michael – July 01, 2008 @ 05:02 AM
    How do I find the top five people who have the greatest commonality of books with me? Those are the people that I would like to follow.
  17. Arnav – July 02, 2008 @ 11:06 AM
    How do I add friends in readingsocial? When I clik on the friends tab there is no option to search for peoples' names etc...??
  18. Cooper – July 05, 2008 @ 11:11 PM
    how do I delete a friend?
  19. Alice – July 07, 2008 @ 06:59 PM
    How do I find which books I have in common with someone I'm following? Also it would be good, as others have said, to have some sort of ranking to show who shares the most books with you, and to be able to view those shared books by read, wanting to read etc.
  20. Eric – July 09, 2008 @ 05:58 AM
    Can I suggest also adding a recommend a book option to people in your friend's list with a little comment thing you can put why you're recommending it. I have a pretty active circle of reading buddies and we recommend books to each other all the time, it'd be nice if I could just use VBookshelf to send that book info straight to the person so they have all the info if they want to check it out themselves.
  21. Russ – July 29, 2008 @ 05:24 PM
    OK - Decent idea generally. But I have someone "stalking" me. That is - they are trying to get dirt on me by reading my reviews. I would like to be able to block specific people from "following" me, or opt-out entirely. Can we do this for personal privacy and safety?
  22. Mag – July 30, 2008 @ 10:49 PM
    it would be amazing if there're a function showing people with common books with me like in a ranking chart listing.
  23. Denise – August 15, 2008 @ 08:41 AM
    How do you delete someone you accidently followed!!
  24. Khakhalin – August 28, 2008 @ 02:39 AM
    You may add a feature of "finding people with tastes as close to yours as possible". Knowing a pattern of reading, it should be possible to do it automatically. I think it would a nice cloud-type network...
  25. Kayla – September 01, 2008 @ 09:20 AM
    thanks! this was a good idea! Is there a spot where you can see all those who are following you? If not, that would be cool too.
  26. SJ – September 02, 2008 @ 12:28 AM
    I have accidentally "unfollowed" a friend by clicking the "following" button. How do I undo it? My friend's visual bookselve is profile-disabled so I can't "re-follow" it via the profile section. Pls advise?
  27. sandi – September 03, 2008 @ 12:12 PM
    is there any way to prevent someone from following you? ie: block particular users from using this feature to keep track of your reads?
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