# Follow other users

Following is a relationship between your profile and another user's profile. A profile is the
page for a person's basic information and article views.

## Follow another user

Use following when you want to follow that person's profile from the profile screen.

| If you need to… | Go to |
| --- | --- |
| Understand profiles and their related views | [Profiles overview](doc:profiles-overview) |
| View a person's profile | [View a profile](doc:view-a-profile) |
| Follow or stop following a person | [Follow or unfollow the profile owner](#follow-or-unfollow-the-profile-owner) |
| View the person's favorited articles | [View favorited articles](doc:view-favorited-articles) |

## Before you start

Following is available from another person's profile rather than from your own profile.

**Prerequisites**

| Before you begin | What you need |
| --- | --- |
| Sign-in | A signed-in session |
| Profile | The profile of the person you want to follow or stop following |

## Find a profile

**Steps**

1. Open the person's profile.

**Result:** The person's profile opens.

## Understand the profile screen

The profile screen places the relationship control beside the person's profile information.
It changes its wording according to whether you already follow that person.

| Profile situation | Control shown |
| --- | --- |
| You already follow the person | **Unfollow** followed by the profile username |
| You do not follow the person | **Follow** followed by the profile username |
| You opened your own profile | No relationship control |

The profile screen does not use a follow input, selector, or confirmation dialog. The control
directly performs the relationship action.

## Follow or unfollow the profile owner

Use this procedure to change the relationship shown on the profile.

**Prerequisites**

- You have opened another person's profile.
- You can see the relationship control beside the profile information.

**Steps**

1. Select the control that matches the relationship you want to set.

   | If the profile shows… | Select… |
   | --- | --- |
   | You do not follow the person | **Follow** |
   | You already follow the person | **Unfollow** |

2. Check the profile information.

**Result:** The profile uses the profile returned by the selected relationship action.

## What to do next

After changing the relationship, continue with the person's profile information or article
views. Use [View a profile](doc:view-a-profile) for general profile viewing and [View favorited
articles](doc:view-favorited-articles) for the person's favorited articles. For the wider
profile feature, use [Profiles overview](doc:profiles-overview).