Sharing digital items via a social networking system

摘要

A user may make a digital item available to other users of a computer network, such as an instant messaging system, a chat environment, or a subscription-based computer network. Examples of digital items that may be shared with other users include digital representations of graphic images, photographs, audio segments, songs, video segments, movies, and text (such as lists of favorites (e.g., a list of favorite books, a list of favorite movies, and a list of favorite places to visit)). On-line presence information is provided to indicate the on-line presence of users with whom a digital item has been shared, may be shared or is being shared. For instance, an indication of the on-line or offline status of a user with whom an item has been shared or is being shared may be presented.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing, to a first user of a social networking system, access to a digital item shared through the social networking system by a second user of the social networking system; identifying a selection by the first user to share the digital item shared through the social networking system by the second user of the social networking system; identifying a sharing setting associated with the digital item, the sharing setting being set by the second user and wherein the sharing setting dictates that access to the digital item is to be limited to a subset of users of the social networking system; and if the sharing setting grants permission to the first user to share the digital item, sharing the digital item with users of the social networking system who are friends of the first user of the social networking system.