USER CREATED TAGS FOR ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING

摘要

The present invention provides a social networking system and method by which customized tags can be created by a registered user in an online social networking environment and distributed to facilitate social networking. The tags represent personal characteristics and preferences associated with users of the online social networking environment. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided in the online social networking website that enables a specific user to create and customize tags. Tags can be embeddable in that a user can insert the tag in a website GUI for display. Also, tags may have embedded content, e.g. a photo, a song, a profile page location, etc and may be sponsored or traded in the social networking website. Also a skin that shows the personal profile page GUI style may be customized, sponsored, or traded.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
establishing an online networking environment to enable a plurality of users to engage in an online networking activity; providing, by a server, a user interface in the online networking environment to enable a first user of the networking activity to: select a first tag to convey to a second user, the first tag representing a trait of the second user as attributed by the first user.