Your Profile is an important aspect of Prepping Communities. Among other things, it allows you to control what other people see about you, change your profile detail information, change you profile image, add friends, send text messages, view your events, manage your account and manage your reviews.
To go to the My Profile page, select the My Profile menu item from the Members drop-down menu as shown below.
Top of Page / Return to How To
The My Profile page will be displayed showing your Profile Details. To change your Profile Details, click on the Edit Profile link.
Top of Page / Return to How To
Fill in the Edit Profile form as shown below and click on the Save button.
First Name, Last Name : These fields are required. Enter your first and last names as you want them to be displayed on your Member Profile. Both first and last names are required but you can be creative in how you enter them as shown above (First Name: Natural Born, Last Name: Prepper). If you want to use your real first and last name that’s okay too.
Website: This field is optional. If you have a website or a link to a social media site, enter that here.
Show My Location on Map: Select Yes or No. This gives you the option to display your Profile on the map when other people are looking for other Members in their area. We recommend keeping the default ‘Yes’ (even if you don’t want other people to know your exact location), since you can provide non-identifying ma locations as you require. (see Map Location next).
Map Location: Prepping Communities allows Members to find Other Members and Prepping Community Groups geographically using a map. This is a very powerful feature but may represent a problem for some Members who simply do not want other people to know where they are.
Prepping Communities has taken care of this problem by allowing Members to be shown on a map using a proximity model. Simply put, you do not have to provide an address if you wish not to. The only required fields for showing your Profile on a map is a City/Town, State/Province and Country. All other Map Location fields are optional.
Prepping Communities recommends using a full address for Group Locations. We also recommend using a full address for Members, but using an address of a commercial facility like a store or gas/petro station as close to your real location as you feel comfortable.
Top of Page / Return to How To