Facebook, Inc.

Other

Nicolas Vera

James Han Wang

Rebekah Marie Cox

Christopher W Putnam

Yishan Wong

Chad E Little

Marcel Laverdet

Stephen M Grimm

Ting Yin Kwan

Katherine P Losse

Adam Edward D'Angelo

Arieh Steinberg

Javier Olivan Lopez

Ezra Callahan

Christopher Kelly

Chris Kelly

Javier Olivan-Lopez

Katherine Losse

A social network allows its members to regulate what data is accessible to other members using one or more privacy settings. A particular member of the social network can modify the one or privacy settings to grant or deny different users access to different data. When a member modifies a privacy setting, the social network determines which information pathways communicating data between members are affected. The affected information pathways are then modified responsive to the privacy setting to communicate data identified by the modified privacy setting and enforce the new privacy restrictions.

Dynamically updating privacy settings in a social network

Systems and methods for providing privacy settings for applications associated with a user profile are provided. Exemplary methods include receiving a request from a member of a web-based social network to access a third-party application, providing privacy settings selections to control access to data associated with the installed application, receiving a privacy settings selection from the member, and providing to the third party application information about the user subject to the received privacy settings selections.

Systems and methods for providing privacy settings for third-party applications

Systems and methods for providing privacy settings for applications associated with a user profile are provided. Exemplary methods include receiving a request from a member of a web-based social network to install an application in association with a member profile, installing the requested application, providing privacy settings selections to control access to data associated with the installed application, receiving a privacy settings selection from the member, and displaying data associated with the application based on the privacy settings selection.

Systems and methods for providing privacy settings for applications associated with a user profile

Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for translating text in a social network. In one embodiment translations of text phrases are received from members of the social network. These text phrases include content displayed in a social networking system, such as content from social networking objects. A particular member is provided with content including a text phrase in a first language, and the member requests translation into another language. Responsive to this request, a translation of the text phrase is selected from a set of available translations. The selection is based on actions by friends of the member in the social network, the actions being associated with the set of available translations. These actions can the viewing of or approval of translations by the friends, for example. The selected translation is then presented to the member requesting the translation.

Community translation on a social network

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Nicolas Vera