Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Robin Maxime Clediere

Patrick Joseph Roark Underwood

Christopher Joseph Welch

Kory Matthew Westerhold

Jeremy Samuel Friedland

Christine Serrone Gray

John Evans

Cristobal Alvaro Castilla Lacomba

Mohammed Abid

Ryan Freitas

Brody Jay Larson

Shali Myhanh Nguyen

Brittany Holthus Lawrence

Nicholas Aaron Merola

Jason Holland

George Lewis Kedenburg, Iii

Geoff David Joseph Teehan

Bradley Jay Birdsall

Samantha P Krug

Gregory Matthew Marra

Jason Jiawei Liao

Cemre Güngör

Jiesi Luo

Matthew William Canton

Sikai Zhu

Maya Patterson

Yu Chen

Uses of an online system include a target user and other users that are connected to the target users. The online system presents a content item received from a target user to the other users. The online system receives comments on the content item from the users and a selection of one of the comments from a user. The online system provides one or more types of actions (e.g., adding the comment to the content item or highlighting the comment) on the comment that the user can take. Upon receiving a selection of adding the comment, the online system modifies the content item to include the comment. Upon receiving a selecting of highlighting the comment, the online system associates a highlighting feature to the comment. The online system provides the modified content item or highlighted comment for display to the plurality of users.

Highlighting comments on online systems

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to present a comment thread including at least one comment. A selection of the at least one comment presented in the comment thread can be determined. A reply thread based at least in part on the at least one comment can be presented.

Systems and methods for multilevel comment threading

Display screen with a transitional graphical user interface

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire content items in a content sharing system from a time a user last accessed the content sharing system. The content items can be ranked based on relevance of the content items. An update including at least one content item selected from the content items for access by the user can be generated.

Systems and methods for providing updates in social networking systems

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

For a user in a social networking system, the social networking system provides photo spaces to facilitate communication between users. Icons represent other users, and the user interacts with an icon to view photos or other media items with which both the user and another user are associated (e.g., in which both users are visually present). When a user interacts with a photo or other media item, the social networking system generates a chat user interface for the user to have a private conversation with the second user with reference to the photo.

Photo space user interface facilitating contextual discussion between users of a social networking system

Display device with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

A social application provides a user interface that allows private or non-public interactions by users in a relationship (e.g., a dating or family relationship), which acts as a 'private space' for those users. The private space can be created behind a main interface of a social application so that it is easily accessible by swiping away or otherwise revealing the private interface. Users can easily return to the main interface, such that a user can flip back and forth between private and more public environments. The private space can include user interfaces accessible via tabs or links, such as a homepage interface, a chat interface, a photos interface, and a dates interface that together allow users to communicate privately, share photos and important dates. One user can also receive notifications in either the main or private interfaces that notify the user of the other user's actions in either interface.

User interface for private interactions by users

A social networking system enables users to interact through a content item in real time by presenting an interaction bar to a user viewing a content item page associated with the content item. The social networking system presents the content item pages for content items along with a content item header. The content item header remains at a fixed position on the display of a viewing user's client device at the top of the display. If the social networking system receives an interaction with a content item, the social networking system can identify users who are viewing the content item page associated with the content item and present an interaction bar that describes the interaction in the content item header. To determine whether to present an interaction bar to a viewing user, the social networking system can calculate an affinity score of a viewing user for the interaction.

Interaction bar for real-time interactions with content on a social networking system

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