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Coming Soon: Finding Your Friends on YouTube
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
YouTube has always been a place for you to share and enjoy videos with family and friends. Soon, we'll be making it even easier for you to find people you know on the site. We'll start by launching a "You may know these people" suggestions box on the homepage over the next few weeks that shows you the YouTube channels of people who might be your acquaintances, and lets you easily connect and subscribe to them.
How will we make the suggestions? If you've logged in to YouTube and sent a video to a friend's email address, or if you have your YouTube account linked to a Gmail account, we will use this information to help identify your friends who already have YouTube channels. You'll only see channels whose owners have allowed themselves to be found by others who have their email address.
Want to see if you've previously allowed your channel to be found by others who have your email address, or want to change your settings? Just log in and visit the
"Privacy" section
of My Account. Look for the checkbox at the top that says "Let others find my channel on YouTube if they have my email address."
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