Social networking system and method
A social network is provided. The social network of the present invention may prompt a user to create a “moment”. The moment of the present invention may include at least a time and a location of a place that the user is currently located, was located in the past, or will be located in the future. The moment may be stored on a database. Multiple users may create accounts and create a plurality of moments. All of the moments of the users may be stored on the database. The present invention may include a search box so that third party users may search for other third party user's moments. A user may enter in search criteria and may be presented with a plurality of moments based on the inputted search criteria.
1. A system for sharing digital contents on a social networking platform, the system comprising:
a computer with a user interface having an executable program comprising machine-readable code which, when executed, causes the computer to:
prompt a user on the user interface to create at least one picture or video, wherein the at least one picture or the video comprises location data comprising a location of a place that the at least one picture or video was created, wherein the location data is unloaded to a database and tagged to a profile of the user;
search for additional pictures or videos that have similar location data as the at least one picture or video;
share, without disclosing the user's proper name, activities done by the user on a particular day by chronologically listing a plurality of digital contents of the user;
receive an entered search criteria on the user interface by the user to request viewing at least one picture or video created by third party users within the database;
display the at least one picture or video of the third party users on a screen based on the entered search criteria;
obtain location information of the at least one picture or video of the third party users and a current location of the user;
compare the obtained location information of the at least one picture or video from the third party users to the current location of the user; and
select and display at least one advertisement based on the comparison.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the location data includes a location of the user.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the location data includes a past or future location of the user.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the location data includes GPS or address coordinates of a current location of the user or a location or address input by the user.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the executable program causes the computer to prompt the user to designate the at least one picture or video as public or private.
6. A method executed by a computer for sharing digital contents on a social networking platform, the method comprising:
prompting a user on a user interface of the computer to create at least one picture or video, wherein the at least one picture or the video comprises location data comprising a location of a place that the at least one picture or video was created, wherein the location data is uploaded to a database and tagged to a profile of the user;
searching for additional pictures or videos that have similar location data as the at least one picture or video;
sharing, without disclosing the user's proper name, activities done by the user on a particular day by chronologically listing a plurality of digital contents of the user;
receiving an entered search criteria on the user interface by the user to request viewing at least one picture or video created by third party users within the database;
displaying the at least one picture or video of the third party users on a screen based on the entered search criteria;
obtaining location information of the at least one picture or video of the third party users and a current location of the user;
comparing the obtained location information of the at least one picture or video from the third party users to the current location of the user; and
selecting and displaying at least one advertisement based on the comparison.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the location data includes a location of the user.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the location data includes a past or future location of the user.
9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the location data includes GPS or address coordinates of a current location of the user or a location or address input by the user.
10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
prompting the user to designate the at least one picture or video as public or private.