Submit your favorites. Find an article, video, or podcast online and submit it to GetSpred.com. Your submission will immediately appear in “Upcoming Stories,” where other members can find it and, if they like it, GetSpred it.

Become popular. Once a submission has earned a critical mass of GetSpreds, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top 10”. If a submission doesn't receive enough GetSpreds within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section.

Discover media on GetSpred. Visit the “Upcoming” section to discover recently added news, videos, and podcasts. Track submissions as they come in with Swarm, Stack, Big Spy or Arc, our real-time Flash visualization tools in GetSpred Labs. Or use Spy to watch the titles and descriptions as they roll down the page.Of course, you can always check the topic homepages to see what's newly popular. And you can subscribe to RSS feeds of particular topics, popular/upcoming sections, individual users, and the search terms of your choice.

GetSpred. Participate in the collaborative editorial process by GetSpreding the stuff that you like best. As you GetSpred, you contribute to the popularity of any given item. You also build a history of GetSpreding that you or your friends can view.

Bury. If you find stories with bad links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s how we get the spam out of the system and let the good stuff rise to the top.

The system only works when users actively participate on a large scale, so make sure to do your part and GetSpred and Bury content that matters to you!

Build a network. Invite your friends or find them on GetSpred and add them to your friends list. Then your friends can track what you’re GetSpreding and you can see what they GetSpred as well, enabling you to collectively find news together.

Email. Send your friends (GetSpreders or non-GetSpreders) the stories that you GetSpred.

Comment. Share your opinions by commenting on stories, videos, and podcasts as well as GetSpreding and Burying comments by other users.