Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited

Tencent Technology Company Limited

Haochuan Cui

Yuxuan Zhang

Wei Luo

Yu Wu

Rui Guo

Bin Hua Liu

Wa Ye

Xiangyao Lin

Zhonghua Lai

Zhenan Guan

Tianqing Huang

Zongzhuo Wu

Beiqi Wu

Ying Qi

Kunfeng Rong

Junchao Chen

Jingqiong Feng

Xueqin Lin

Cuilong Ma

Guo Ling

Duokai Huang

Method and device for configuring privacy settings for a social network application are disclosed. The method is performed at a first user device, and includes: receiving a relationship establishment instruction from a first user of the first user device, the relationship establishment instruction being associated with a first relationship establishment mode used by the first user for establishing a relationship; in accordance with the first relationship establishment mode, selecting a respective privacy setting for use by the first user; executing the relationship establishment instruction to establish the relationship between the first user and the second user in the first social network; and after executing the relationship establishment instruction resulting in establishing the relationship between the first user and second user, granting a permission for social network interactions between the first user and the second user in accordance with the respective privacy setting.

Privacy setting method, apparatus, and system

When location information and a user Identification (ID) is received from a client terminal device of a user X, a grid Y, to which the location information belongs, is determined. The user ID and the location information of the user X is stored in a list of the grid Y. The grid Y is in a grid array obtained by dividing a surface of the earth into the grids and areas of the grids are the same. Users in the grid Y and other grids are searched. The grid Y and the other grids form an N-grid and the grid Y is a center of the N-grid. The users are ranked in an ascending order of distances between the users and the user X. The ranked user IDs and distances between the users and the user X are sent to the client terminal device of the user X.

Method and server for searching for nearby user in social networking services

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