Keep your contacts updated
There has been a lot of interest and activity around our move to Yahoo! profiles. A benefit of using one profile for your Yahoo!Xtra experience means you can now share your Answers activity with those you are connected to via your Yahoo!Xtra profile, even if they aren’t Answers users.
Sharing your updates will help you get better responses to your questions and will let show off your knowledge to your entire social network!
We have added two new `Updates` features to Answers:
- one notifies your contacts each time you ask a question
- one notifies your contacts of each question you answer
Now, when you are at the “Preview your question” stage of asking a question you will be prompted to `Manage your updates`.
Here you choose if you want to share your updates to your social connections.
By default, updates will be set to “Don’t share my updates” to keep your content private unless you choose otherwise.
To give you control over what and when you share, this option can be changed anytime you ask or answer a question. You have full control over this setting from the “Edit my profile” page, too.
By not sharing your updates, whatever you do on Answers will not appear on your Yahoo!Xtra profile.
When you ask or answer a question, we offer a link to your profile to show you exactly who you are currently sharing your updates with.
Click the “Manage who sees your updates” link to be taken to profiles, where you can control who sees all of your Yahoo!Xtra updates.
Had enough of seeing this message? Check the box and we promise it won’t bug you again.
We’ve tried to make controlling your updates as simple as possible, but if you want more information about managing your Answers updates you can find it on these Help pages: http://help.yahoo.com/l/nz/yahooxtra/answers/updates/
If you are still unsure about how your profile works or how to change features on your Yahoo!Xtra profile, check out the Profiles blog at www.yprofileblog.com and this specific article that is addressed to Answers users.
We hope you like this new feature – we do!
Happy updating!
