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.