DYNAMIC PLACE VISIBILITY IN GEO-SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

摘要

In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to search for a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, select a sub-set from the list of places based on visibility and activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place in the list, and returns the sub-set to the user.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a request, wherein the request comprises a user identifier associated with a first user and a geographic location; accessing a data store of user-profile information to identify one or more direct social contacts of the first user; accessing a data store of places in a social-networking system, each place having a corresponding web page, each place associated with at least one user of the social-networking system, and each place having a visibility state of a plurality of visibility states, wherein each of the plurality of visibility states is operative to control visibility of the respective corresponding web page to users of the social-networking system, and
wherein accessing the data store of places comprises identifying a set of one or more nearby places, the one or more nearby places located within a threshold distance of the geographic location; selecting a sub-set of the set of one or more nearby places based on the visibility state of each place, the at least one user associated with each place, and the one or more direct social contacts of the first user; and providing the selected sub-set of the set of one or more nearby places to the first user.