Some following is automatic, e.g. when you become friends with someone, you automatically follow all their events (adding books, reviews, etc). Also when you join a book club, you automatically follow the club's events (adding items, scheduling meetings, etc).

You can choose to follow additional aspects of Connections, e.g. a user (by going to their profile and clicking the “follow this user” icon) or an item (again you'll see the same icon):

On a user profile, the “My following” box will show the latest five events that the user has chosen to follow:

Once you click on “Show more”, you can see:

1. All events of your friends and other users you follow on Conncetions
2. Users who follow your events
3. Users whose events you follow
4. Change “My following” settings

In “My following” settings you can change:

• To allow or disallow other users follow your events
• To allow or disallow showing your events on the Connections bar ticker