Explore Your Fable Activity Feed - Feature Announcement
Jason Boog
Download the Fable book club app and start exploring your personal Activity Feed today!
With Fable's new Activity Feed, you can quickly browse ALL the conversations happening inside your favorite book clubs at any given moment. In just a few clicks, you'll join great discussions across our whole community.In this post, we'll cover these key topics:- What Is Your Activity Feed?
- Fill Your Activity Feed with Great Book Club Moderators
- How Do I Find & Follow Friends on Fable?
- How To Use Your Activity Feed
- Enhance the Benefits of Social Reading with Fable's Activity Feed
- Benefits of Social Reading for Bibliotherapy
- The Complete Social Reading Experience
What Is Your Activity Feed?
Fable’s new Activity Feed feature is a quick and easy way to join the conversations inside your favorite books and book clubs. By browsing your Activity Feed, you can discover and engage with other readers across the Fable community. Every Fable user has a unique Activity Feed, filled with conversations between all the people you follow on our social reading platform.The Activity Feed provides an intuitive and engaging way to discover new discussions, and it's currently available to everyone with a Fable account!Fill Your Activity Feed with Great Book Club Moderators
Everything starts by following a few of Fable's Top Moderators. These are the authors, readers, creators, leaders, and tastemakers who drive the conversation inside Fable book clubs every single day.Once you've downloaded the Fable app and created your account, you can jump straight into your Activity Feed and start following great book club moderators!- Open the Fable app on your smartphone or tablet
- Tap the “Activity” compass icon in the middle of the menu at the bottom of the home screen
- Scroll through the "Top Moderators" listed at the top of the screen
- When you find an interesting moderator, click "Follow" so they are added to your Activity Feed
How Do I Find & Follow Friends on Fable?
Once you've added a few of our Top Moderators, start looking for your friends. You can find friends with our new search feature inside the Activity Feed!- Open the Fable app on your smartphone or tablet
- Tap the “Activity” compass icon in the middle of the menu at the bottom of the home screen
- Click the search icon in the upper right hand corner of your screen (it looks like a person with a magnifying glass)
- Type the first name of your friend in the search bar
- Scroll through the list of Fable users and tap "Follow" when you find your friend
- If you can't find your friend, click "Invite" to contact your friend and invite them to join you on Fable
How To Use Your Activity Feed
Every public book club on Fable has its own conversation thread. With our Activity Feed, you can quickly browse ALL the conversations happening inside your book clubs at any given moment.Now that you’ve followed a few moderators, you can start browsing your activity feed!- Open the Fable app on your smartphone or tablet
- Tap the “Activity” compass icon in the middle of the menu at the bottom of the home screen
- Scroll through club conversations in the "Feed" list on your screen
- When you discover an interesting club, tap anywhere on the text
- Tap "Add Comment" to join the conversation inside the club
- Write your comment and press "Post"
- Keep scrolling through your activity feed, commenting, reading, and discovering new books
Enhance the Benefits of Social Reading with Fable's Activity Feed
When you read a book, you are engaging with generations of readers who have explored this book and these ideas before you. With Fable, you can unlock the social network of readers and ideas swirling around your favorite book through social reading.According to years of research, there are many benefits to reading together with friends. It’s called Bibliotherapy, and is practiced by therapists and teachers around the world. One study in the American Counseling Associations’ Professional Counseling Digest explained:“Bibliotherapy encourages effective social behavior, clarifies values, and instills cultural identity and ethnic pride … Group benefits include feedback from others concerning interpretations and behaviors and opportunities for modeling and improving communication.”
Other Benefits of Social Reading for Bibliotherapy
- Reduces "negative emotions and symptoms"
- Introduces “positive behaviors and feelings”
- Increases problem-solving abilities
- Magnifies compassion
- Encourages “empathetic understanding”
- Promotes self-awareness
Fable: The Complete Social Reading Experience
Fable community members enjoy the many benefits of reading while making deeper human connections with other readers. Visit our free book club directory and meet your fellow readers.Find a book club to join for free!
We also make it easy to launch your own free book club. With our platform, you can host every aspect of an online discussion at a single destination, to reach readers and build safe online communities regardless of location or time zone.Start your own book club today!
You can sample our ever-growing collection of Folios, exceptional book recommendations from some of the world’s great tastemakers. Each Folio covers an important theme, and some of our Folio curators include LeVar Burton, Paulo Coelho, Wolfgang Puck, and Jasmine Guillory.Discover great book recommendations!
Jason Boog