SELECTIVE CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

摘要

A social networking service encourages users to post content to acommunication channel with varying levels ofaccessibility to other users. Users may select how content will be publishedand control the accessibility of uploaded content usinga privacy setting for each content item that the user posts. The privacysetting defines, or identifies, the set of connections whomay view the posted content item. The posted content item is placed in aparticular communication channel in the social networkingservice, such as a newsfeed or stream, where the content item can be viewed bythose who are permitted to view it accordingto its associated privacy setting. Varying granularities of privacy settingsprovide flexibility for content accessibility on a socialnetworking service.