Presenting question and answer data in a social networking system

摘要

A social networking system includes a question and answer system that displays to a viewing user questions and answers provides by other users of the social networking system. The question and answer system may display answers to a particular question in a way that visually indicates both the global answer set and a subset of the global answer set, such as the viewing user's friends. The social networking system may also display to a viewing user news stories about another user asking or answering a question, where the format of the displayed new stories is based on an affinity that the viewing user has for the user who provided the question or answer mentioned in the news story. The displayed questions and/or answers may be associated with an object in the social networking system, where the user interface provides additional information about those objects.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
presenting a question on a page of a social networking system group, the social networking system group comprising a pre-defined plurality of group members, each group member comprising a social networking system user that has previously joined the group, each group member able to access the page, view the presented question, and answer the presented question; receiving answers to the question from one or more of the group members; receiving a request from a requesting group member to view the answers, wherein the requesting group member has established a connection in the social networking system outside of the group with one or more other group members that have answered the question; generating an answer display that illustrates (1) a first set of answers provided by all group members that have answered the question, and (2) a second set of answers provided by the group members that have established a connection in the social networking system outside of the group with the requesting group member; and sending the answer display for display to the requesting group member.