# Following people

You can follow people on GitHub to receive notifications about their activity.

## About followers

When you follow people, you'll see their public activity on your personal dashboard. If someone you follow stars a public repository, GitHub may recommend the repository to you. For more information, see [Quickstart for your personal dashboard](/en/account-and-profile/get-started/personal-dashboard-quickstart#staying-up-to-date-with-activity-from-the-community).

You can unfollow someone if you do not wish to see their public activity on GitHub.

## Following a user

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
2. Under the user's profile picture, click **Follow**.

## Unfollowing a user

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
2. Under the user's profile picture, click **Unfollow**.

## Viewing followed users

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
2. Under the user's profile picture, click **following**.

   ![Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A link, labeled "9 following", is outlined in dark orange.](/assets/images/help/profile/user-profile-following.png)

## Viewing followers

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
2. Under the user's profile picture, click **followers**.

   ![Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A people icon and a link, labeled "8.4k followers", are outlined in dark orange.](/assets/images/help/profile/user-profile-followers.png)

## Further reading

* [Saving repositories with stars](/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/saving-repositories-with-stars)
* [Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub](/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/finding-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-on-github)