diff --git a/classes/Attention.php b/classes/Attention.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ba22df5b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/classes/Attention.php
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<?php
+/*
+ * GNU social - a federating social network
+ * Copyright (C) 2014, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+class Attention extends Managed_DataObject
+{
+    public $__table = 'attention';  // table name
+    public $notice_id;              // int(4) primary_key not_null
+    public $profile_id;             // int(4) primary_key not_null
+    public $reason;                 // varchar(255)
+    public $created;                // datetime()   not_null
+    public $modified;               // timestamp   not_null default_CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
+
+    public static function schemaDef()
+    {
+        return array(
+            'description' => 'Notice attentions to profiles (that are not a mention and not result of a subscription)',
+            'fields' => array(
+                'notice_id' => array('type' => 'int', 'not null' => true, 'description' => 'notice_id to give attention'),
+                'profile_id' => array('type' => 'int', 'not null' => true, 'description' => 'profile_id for feed receiver'),
+                'reason' => array('type' => 'varchar', 'length' => 255, 'description' => 'Optional reason why this was brought to the attention of profile_id'),
+                'created' => array('type' => 'datetime', 'not null' => true, 'description' => 'date this record was created'),
+                'modified' => array('type' => 'timestamp', 'not null' => true, 'description' => 'date this record was modified'),
+            ),
+            'primary key' => array('notice_id', 'profile_id'),
+            'foreign keys' => array(
+                'attention_notice_id_fkey' => array('notice', array('notice_id' => 'id')),
+                'attention_profile_id_fkey' => array('profile', array('profile_id' => 'id')),
+            ),
+            'indexes' => array(
+                'attention_profile_id_idx' => array('profile_id'),
+            ),
+        );
+    }
+
+    public static function saveNew(Notice $notice, Profile $profile, $reason=null)
+    {
+        $att = new Attention();
+        
+        $att->notice_id = $notice->getID();
+        $att->profile_id = $profile->getID();
+        $att->reason = $reason;
+        $result = $att->insert();
+
+        if ($result === false) {
+            throw new Exception('Could not saveNew in Attention');
+        }
+        return $att;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/db/core.php b/db/core.php
index 5a420cc2b3..d435c03cd6 100644
--- a/db/core.php
+++ b/db/core.php
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ $classes = array('Schema_version',
                  'User_urlshortener_prefs',
                  'Old_school_prefs',
                  'User_username',
+                 'Attention',
 );
 
 foreach ($classes as $cls) {
diff --git a/lib/inboxnoticestream.php b/lib/inboxnoticestream.php
index cb81042e2b..84cac7c67b 100644
--- a/lib/inboxnoticestream.php
+++ b/lib/inboxnoticestream.php
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ class RawInboxNoticeStream extends NoticeStream
         // Subscription:: is a table of subscriptions (every user is subscribed to themselves)
         $notice->whereAdd(
                 sprintf('notice.id IN (SELECT notice_id FROM reply WHERE profile_id=%1$d) ' .
-                    'OR notice.profile_id IN (SELECT subscribed FROM subscription WHERE subscriber=%d)', $this->target->id)
+                        'OR notice.profile_id IN (SELECT subscribed FROM subscription WHERE subscriber=%d) ' .
+                        'OR notice.id IN (SELECT notice_id FROM attention WHERE profile_id=%1$d)',
+                    $this->target->id)
             );
         $notice->limit($offset, $limit);
         $notice->orderBy('notice.created DESC');