Facebook, Inc.

Josh Wiseman

Mark E Zuckerberg

William Joseph Flynn, Iii

Raylene Kay Yung

Paul M McDonald

Jeff Huang

Samuel Wharton Lessin

Matthew Joseph Cahill

Peter Xiu Deng

Ryan David Mack

Serkan Piantino

Ryan Case

Steven Jay Young

Drew Hamlin

Arun Vijayvergiya

Nicholas Felton

Daniel Klatzko Gibson

Zizhuang Yang

Yigal Dan Rubinstein

Stefan Casey Parker

Stanislav Funiak

Philip Rha

Matthew Kai-Shing Choi

Wei Zhong Yeh

Burak Guzel

Martin Smith

William Joseph Flynn

Drew W Hamlin

Paul M Mcdonald

Stefan Parker

The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

Displaying social networking system user information via a timeline interface

Capturing structured data about previous events from users of a social networking system

A social networking system detects spam in comments posted by users of the social networking system. A spam prevention module of the social networking system retrieves content signals associated with a posted comment and analyzes the content signals to determine whether the posted comment contains spam content. The spam prevention module augments the content signal analysis by analyzing social signals of the posted comment. Based on the content signal analysis and the social signal analysis, the spam prevention module determines whether the posted comment is spam and takes remedial actions on detected spam, including blocking the comment and educating the user who posted the comment.

Spam detection and prevention in a social networking system

A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user's profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format.

Profile page with biographical summary for social networking system user

A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows users to compliment the user on the experience. If a user wants to compliment another user on an experience not present on that user's user profile, the user can add the experience along with the compliment. Complimenting users on their experiences allows a reputation ranking to be created based on compliments received in a particular domain, which are searchable by user of the social networking system. The compliments may be used by the social networking system to build a domain-based reputation ranking of users of a social networking system.

Adding a compliment to a user's experience on a user's social networking profile

A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows the user to tag other users as being involved in or otherwise associated with the user's experiences. Once another user is tagged in an experience, a corresponding tag is added to the tagged user's user profile, and that experience is added as well if not already included in the profile. Tagging users in experiences allows a viewer to see connections between experiences of users of the social networking system and promotes more detailed user profiles that contain experiences.

Tagging users of a social networking system in an experience in a user's user profile

Displaying social networking system user information via a historical newsfeed

Selecting social networking system user information for display via a timeline interface

Display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Josh Wiseman