Facebook, Inc.

Xun Gong

David Ian Ferguson

Bradley Ray Green

Jireh Yiwei Tan

Jun Sun

Kyle Philip Meyer

Pooja Jain

Li Ju

Jasper Reid Hauser

Dan Ionut Fechete

Vijay Kumar Sivakumar

Michael Andrew Howard

Jerry Ju

Zhiyuan Zhang

Xuan Jiang

Scott Joseph Robert Horsfall

In one embodiment, a method includes identifying one or more social network events that satisfy a query condition in a social-networking system, determining an event score for each of the identified events, where the event score is based on one or more signals that are each related to a first interaction between a target user and the social-networking system, and the first interaction associates the target user with the identified event, and presenting one or more of the identified events to the target user in an order based on the event score of each identified event. The interaction may establish an association between the target user and an entity associated with the event.

Events discovery context

A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system determining scores for various groups representing a likelihood of the user interacting with the groups. When determining a score for a group, the social networking system accounts for a likelihood of the user providing content to the group as well as the user accessing or viewing content associated with the group. Based on the scores, one or more groups are selected and presented to the user. Additionally, the social networking system may apply one or more diversity rules so that the selected groups have a variety of characteristics.

Identifying groups for a social networking system user based on group characteristics and likelihood of user interaction

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Xun Gong