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# about (profile update)
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About messages are used to add additional information to another message, much like attaching post-it notes to some book page. You're _attaching information about_ something. Most use cases of `about` messages are to add names, images and descriptions to a user profile.
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> **Attention:** There is no central authority handling names on the Scuttleverse. Much like in the physical world where two people can have the exact same name so it is on Scuttlebutt.
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> You can name other people as well, just like partners and friends do.
The message above is adding a `name`, an `image` and a `description` to the user specified by the `about` field.
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There is a lot more [information about `about` online](http://scuttlebot.io/docs/message-types/about.html).
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# about (gathering)
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`about` messages are very flexible. They are often used to add or alter metadata _about_ some other message. In Patchfox documentation, I use the jargon that this message is _overloaded_ and it's meaning depends on which message it is _abouting_ about.
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That message is marking a _feed_ (aka a user) as attending the _gathering_.
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# about (profile update)
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About messages are used to add additional information to another message, much like attaching post-it notes to some book page. You're _attaching information about_ something. Most use cases of `about` messages are to add names, images and descriptions to a user profile.
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> **Attention:** There is no central authority handling names on the Scuttleverse. Much like in the physical world where two people can have the exact same name so it is on Scuttlebutt.
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> You can name other people as well, just like partners and friends do.
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