Mylinia FAQs

1. How do I support someone?
2. What kinds of media can I embed?
3. How do I set my profile to private?
4. How do I embed media into my profile?
5. How are footsteps calculated?
6. Who are all of these anonymous people?
7. What does "Fully Public" mean?
8. What are the stars for?
9. How do I turn off email notifications?
10. What does it mean to add a friend?

Changing your profile picture works just like attaching a file to an email.

1. From your Navigation Hub, select "EDIT PROFILE".
2. Click the "Browse..." button under your current picture
3. Find the the new picture on your hard drive
4. Hit the "Save" button

Mylinia isn't about who has the most friends, it's about how deep your closest friend can know you. Adding someone as a friend means letting someone into your private world. The benefits are as follows:

1. They will appear on your Friends page. Their passions will be aggregated in your friend's tag cloud so that you can see what your friends are passionate about and reach out to them for support based on their passions when you need help getting to the next level.

2. Whenever you tag something with a passion that one of your friends has, it will automatically go to all of your friends who share that passion. As a result, you support multiple people at once whenever you make a recommendation without having to think about who else you know has that passion.

3. They can see you profile if you ever take your profile off of the Fully Public privacy setting.

There are many ways to get creative and showcase who you are. In addition to just typing text, you can use one of 0ur embed partners in the following ways:

Use to showcase your passion for animals or promote your own films.

1. From your Navigation Hub, select "EDIT PROFILE".
2. On the right, click the sky blue box that says "4. Showcase"
3. Click "HTML Code (YouTube Videos)"
4. Paste the embed code from YouTube like the one below:


5. Hit save



Use to showcase your passion for technology.



Use to showcase your passion for music or promote your own music.



Use to showcase your passion for cars.



Use to raise money for your passion or cause.

Notifications alert you when someone has sent you a recommendation that is relevant to your passions or your support statement. If you ever want to turn them off, simply follow these 4 easy steps:

1. From your Navigation Hub, select "EDIT PROFILE".
2. On the right, click the purple box that says "3. Support Types"or "3. Support Statement".
3. Uncheck the email notification box at the bottom of the screen.
4. Hit the "Save" button.

You can add up to 8 passions on your Mylinia profile. In order to register, you had to pick 2 passions. The more passions you share, the more recommendations and advice you're likely to get.

To edit your passions, simply follow these 4 easy steps:

1. From your Navigation Hub, select "EDIT PROFILE".
2. On the right, click the lime green box that says "2. Passions".
3. Add or edit one of your eight passions
4. Hit the "Save" button

It's great to give and to receive!

The stars are there to allow you to say thank you to anyone who has given you support. You can give a supporter anywhere from 0 to 3 footsteps for taking the time to support you on your journey.

In addition, you get a footstep for giving them a footstep.