Method of conducting social network application operations

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display.

1 . A method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location, the method executed by a computer system and comprising:
 receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device;   associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database;   sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display.   
     
     
         2 . A method of conducting social network operations for users participating in a social networking service, the method executed by one or more computer systems and comprising:
 providing a mobile application for use on wireless computing devices of users for interaction with one or more servers of hardware and software of the social networking service, wherein the social networking service is adapted to permit a respective user to control a social networking service account to accept other following users to follow activities of the respective user via substantially real time messaging to wireless devices of the following users, wherein the mobile application is adapted to receive manually inputted text descriptive information from a respective user for sharing via the social network service for association with a user selected photo, wherein the mobile application is further operable to communicate geographic data indicative of a current location of the respective user during interaction with the one or more servers of hardware and software of the social networking service;   interacting, by the social networking service, with instances of the mobile application on wireless computing devices of users of the social networking service to receive messages and location information, wherein the interacting comprises: automatically distributing messages received from users using the mobile application to wireless devices of follower users identified in corresponding user accounts of the social networking service in a substantially real time manner from receipt of the respective messages, wherein the distributed messages include photos and manually entered text descriptive information communicated from the mobile application for display to following users; and   providing a substantially real-time ad matching service for providing ads to users of the social networking service, wherein the ad-matching service contextually analyzes text descriptive information in messages for distribution to following users for matching against ad parameters in ad campaigns managed via the ad matching service, wherein ads matched by the ad matching service are communicated in conjunction with distribution of corresponding messages to following users of the social networking service.