Social network with secret statuses and Verifications
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1. A method of operating a social networking site, comprising:
- storing profiles of multiple users on a social networking website, said profiles including information about each of said users;
storing friend preferences of said multiple users on said social networking site;
showing first content from multiple users automatically to friends of the multiple users, and not showing said first content to users who are not friends of the multiple users, said showing comprising each user seeing said first content of only for users who are friends of the each user;
storing second content about each of the multiple users representing private information which is not automatically shown to said friends of the multiple users; and
comparing said second content to second content associated with other users, and based on a result of said comparing, determining whether said second content will be shown to any other user, where said second content for a second user is only shown to a first user when said second content of said second user matches in a specified way to said second content of said first user, based on said comparing.
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Abstract
User profiles are on a social networking site, and that profile includes three different parts: a public part, a private part only to be shown to friends of the user, and a personal private part that is not shown to anyone who does not meet the specified criteria, whether friends or not friends. That other private part can be, for example, information about personal or dating preferences, that is only shown to those people who expressed similar desire to see personal or dating preferences. In one embodiment, the users profile is verified before showing them anyone else'"'"'s private information.
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19 Claims
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1. A method of operating a social networking site, comprising:
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storing profiles of multiple users on a social networking website, said profiles including information about each of said users; storing friend preferences of said multiple users on said social networking site; showing first content from multiple users automatically to friends of the multiple users, and not showing said first content to users who are not friends of the multiple users, said showing comprising each user seeing said first content of only for users who are friends of the each user; storing second content about each of the multiple users representing private information which is not automatically shown to said friends of the multiple users; and comparing said second content to second content associated with other users, and based on a result of said comparing, determining whether said second content will be shown to any other user, where said second content for a second user is only shown to a first user when said second content of said second user matches in a specified way to said second content of said first user, based on said comparing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A social networking website, comprising:
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a computer server storing profiles of multiple users on a social networking website, said profiles including information about each of said users, said computer server also storing friend preferences of said multiple users on such social networking site, said profiles for each of plural users including at least a public part that can be shown to any other user, a friend private part for each user that is only shown to friends of the each user, and a personal private part, separate from said friend private part, that is only shown to first users who match a specified criteria for the each user, where said specified criteria is other than whether said each user is a friend of the first user. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A social networking site, comprising:
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a computer server storing profiles of multiple users, said profiles including information about each of said users, and storing friend preferences of said multiple users on said social networking site, said computer server automatically showing first content from multiple users automatically to friends of the multiple users, and not showing said first content to users who are not friends of the multiple users, said showing comprising showing each user said first content only for users who are friends of the each user, said computer server also storing second content about each of the multiple users representing private information which is not automatically shown to said friends of the multiple users; and said computer server comparing said second content to second content associated with other users, and determining whether said second content will be shown to any other user based on a result of said comparing, where said second content for a second user is only shown to a first user when said second content of said second user matches in a specified way to said second content of said first user, based on said comparing. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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