PROFILE PAGE WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER

摘要

A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user's profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
maintaining profile stores of a subject user and a viewing user of the social networking system, the profile stores including biographical information items; selecting two or more biographical information items from the subset of biographical items from the subject user's profile store for display to the viewing user, the selecting based at least in part on the two or more items each comprising a characteristic in common between the subject user and the viewing user; concatenating the two or more selected biographical information items into a short biography of the subject user for displaying to the viewing user, the short biography specific to the viewing user; and providing a profile page of the subject user for display to the viewing user, the profile page comprising the short biography specific to the viewing user and further description of the subject user viewable by other users of the social networking system.