The Downside of Popularity

In Hollywood being too popular might mean having your sartorial mishaps and/or omissions picked apart and ridiculed for all the world to see. On Mixx it often means email overload, you know, since you’re collecting Followers like an old lady collects cats. It’s good to be popular. But when overly enthusiastic Friends start filling your mailbox with too many cool links to handle in one day, what’s a poor Mixxer to do?

If this sounds like you, you’ll be happy to know that we’re working on a “digest” version of emails, a once-a-day delivery for all of the links your Friends send, and for all Follower announcements. Keep checking back; we’ll announce it here when it’s ready to go.

In the meantime, you do have a couple of options to control the amount of email from other Mixxers:

• Decline to have any links shared with you from Mixx. If someone knows your email address, they can still share with you, but they can’t share directly via your MixxID. To set this up, go to Your Account, select Account Settings and look for the “Allow other users to share Mixx items with me” switch. Turn it off and click “Submit.”
• Turn off individual alerts, like notifications when someone Friends you or when you win an award. Just go to Your Account, Account Settings and scroll down for these switches.
• If it’s just one friend that keeps cluttering the inbox, you can take the drastic step of blocking them. Just go to your profile, and select “View All” on your Followers to see the icons of everyone who is Following you. Next to each icon, you’ll see a little “x.” Click on this to break the connection; they won’t be able to share links with you, or invite you to a group or call you a Friend anymore. If you block someone and then start to feel horribly guilty for doing it, it’s easy to become friends again. Just go to their profile and Follow them again—no need for apologies, flowers or groveling. We think.

So while we can only imagine how tough this level of popularity must be, we hope this will make it easier to manage. Now, before we go: May we have an autograph?

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