Activity

 

The Activity tab shows you everything that has happened affecting you.

That includes public and private messages that were sent to you. It includes a count of all the members, secondly a count of all your friends and thirdly a count of all the times that you were mentioned. You can comment on different items. You can make something a favorite and you can delete items.

The empty box allows you to make a comment which everyone can see on the activity page.

The Show box allows you to choose how much of your activity that you want to see at any one time.

 

Groups

The Groups tab shows what groups are available. The Village Talk is an open public group for everyone to use and talk about anything and/or everything.

Click on the group name to see what's going on in that group.

Anyone can start a group. For instance some one could start a group about dogs or another about local restaurants. A group can be public - open to everyone - or private - open only to people who ask to join. The Join Group button allows you to join a group.

You can search groups for something using the search groups box. You can change the order in which things are displayed using the Order By box.

 

Members

The Members tab shows you a list of all the members or just your friends by choosing the appropriate button.

You can search for members using the search box and you can display their names in different order by using the order by box.

If you click on a specific person, you can choose to send them a public message which everyone can see or a private message which will be between just you and them. A new page will appear and then you can fill in the message in the box.

Send it by pressing the post update button.

A similar page will be available private messages and you send that message by clicking on the send message button.

Send it by pressing the post update button.

Finally in the members tab, if you click on yourself and then click settings, you can change your password or email address and then click the save changes button to make those changes.

Unfortunately it is not possible to change your username in this system.