Managing Privacy For User-Generated Lists In An Online System
A user of a social networking system creates a list of objects and associates the list with a list privacy level identifying the list's accessibility to other social networking system users. For example, the list privacy level indicates other social networking system users capable of accessing the list. For example, a user creates a list including other users and associates a list privacy level with the list. Hence, the user may specify a privacy level of subsequently posted content so that users included on the list, but not other users, may access the posted content.
1 . A method comprising:
receiving a content item from a user for presentation to one or more users of a social networking system;
receiving a privacy setting associated with the content item, the privacy setting identifying a list of users of the social networking system;
retrieving the list of users identified by the privacy setting;
determining a list privacy setting associated with the list of users, the list privacy setting identifying users of the social networking system authorized to access the list; and
presenting the content item to users of the social networking system identified by the list privacy setting associated with the list of users authorized to access the list.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the list privacy setting is selected from a group consisting of a setting limiting access to the list to a user that created the list, a setting limiting access to the list to users included on the list, and a setting allowing any user of the social networking system to access the list.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the list privacy setting identifies an additional list of users of the social networking system user.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the list privacy setting identifies users of the social networking system included on a plurality of additional lists of users.
5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a request to include an additional user to the list of users; and
transmitting a notification to users identified by the list of users of the inclusion of the additional user to the list of users subject to the list privacy setting.
6 . A method comprising:
receiving a content item from a user for presentation to one or more users of a social networking system;
receiving a privacy setting associated with the content item, the privacy setting identifying a list of objects maintained by the social networking system;
retrieving the list of objects identified by the privacy setting;
determining a list privacy setting associated with the list of objects, the list privacy setting identifying objects maintained by the social networking system authorized to access the list; and
presenting the content item so that the content item is accessible to objects identified by the list privacy setting.
7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the list privacy setting is selected from a group consisting of a setting limiting access to the list to a user that created the list, a setting limiting access to the list to objects included on the list, and a setting allowing any object maintained by the social networking system to access the list.
8 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the list privacy setting identifies an additional list of objects maintained by the user.
9 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the list privacy setting identifies objects maintained by the social networking system included on a plurality of additional lists of objects.
10 . The method of claim 6 , wherein an object maintained by the social networking system is selected from a group consisting of: a user, a page, an application, a content item, a place, and any combination thereof.
11 . A method comprising:
receiving a content item from a user for presentation to one or more users of a social networking system, the content item associated with a list of objects authorized to access the content item;
retrieving the list of objects associated with the content item;
determining a list privacy setting associated with the list of objects and identifying objects maintained by the social networking system authorized to access the list; and
presenting the content item to objects identified by the list privacy setting as authorized to access the list.
12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the list privacy setting is selected from a group consisting of a setting limiting access to the list to a user that created the list, a setting limiting access to the list to objects included on the list, and a setting allowing any object maintained by the social networking system to access the list.
13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the list privacy setting identifies an additional list of objects maintained by the user.
14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the list privacy setting identifies objects maintained by the social networking system included on a plurality of additional lists of objects.
15 . The method of claim 11 , wherein an object maintained by the social networking system is selected from a group consisting of: a user, a page, an application, a content item, a place, and any combination thereof.