Facebook, Inc.

David Shein

Aaron Samuel Filner

David C Thomsen

Devin James Naquin

Andy Lien

Sundhar Ram Srinivasan

Ryan Joseph Moniz

Yujing Zhang

Xiaoyu Guang

Katherine Nicole Geiger

Camelia Dobrin

Meridith Major Blascovich

Pelle Elander Wisten

Jonathon E Toon

Alexander William Watts

Sundhar Ram Srinvasan

Jonathan E Toon

An online system maintains a page of content for a user that includes content provided to the online system by the user. To allow the user to more easily present content items to other online system users, the online system receives an objective specifying a desired interaction by users presented with the content item from the user and generates a set of content items from content included on the page. One or more content items of the set are selected and a budget for presenting the selected one or more content items is received, and the online system includes one or more of the selected content items in selection processes along with bid amounts based on the budget that select content for presentation to other users. The online system may update the selected content items of the set over time as content included on the page is modified.

Generating content items for presentation to online system users from content included on a page maintained by the online system

In one embodiment, a method includes inferring an intent of the target user to post to a social-networking system based on one or more information items. One or more information items may be assembled that are relevant to one or more of the information items from which the intent to post was inferred. A prompt to post may be sent to the target user comprising one or more of the assembled information items. One or more indications of one or more reactions of the target user may be received from a client system of the target user. The one or more reactions of the target user may be used in both inferring a future intent to post on the part of future target users and assembling information items for future target users.

Eliciting user sharing of content

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David Shein