INFERRING RELATIONSHIP STATUSES OF USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

摘要

A social networking system infers a relationship status (e.g., single, married, in a relationship, etc.) of a user of the social networking system based on the user's interactions with additional users of the social networking system and the relationship statuses of the additional users. The social networking system identifies certain types of interactions between the user and additional users as indicators and determines a value for an indicator based on a number of additional users associated with the indicator that identify a relationship status of single and a number of additional users associated with the indicator that identify a relationship status other than single. Based on the values of various indicators, the social networking system determines a score for the user and infers a relationship status for the user based on the score.