Multi-faceted social network system for use with plural applications

A social network system comprising:

• one or more processing devices;
• and
• at least one computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to:
• provide social networking feature functions to applications including a first application and a second application:
• designate users of the social network system as having associations with the applications;
• when user-generated social networking posts are received by the social network system over a network from different user devices of different users associated with different applications, tag the user-generated social networking posts with application-specific tags identifying respective applications with which the different users are associated, the user-generated social networking posts including a first set of user-generated social networking posts received from the first application and tagged with a first application-specific tag and a second set of user-generated social network posts receive from the second application and tagged with a second application-specific tag;
• store the user-generated social networking posts and the application-specific tags in a data store of the social network system;
• when a particular user uses the first application installed on a particular user device to access the social network system and requests an application-specific presentation of the social network system for the second application that is not installed on the particular user device, filter the user-generated social networking posts in the data store of the social network system based at least on the second application-specific too identify the second set of user-generated social networking posts that are tagged with the second application-specific tag, at least some of the user-generated social networking posts being generated by designated contacts of the particular user;
• and
• send the second set of user-generated social networking posts over the network from the social network system to the first application on the particular user device.

A social network system comprising:

• at least one processing device;
• and
• at least one computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to:
• integrate a first application and a second application with the social network system by providing social network feature functions to the first application and the second application;
• receive a plurality of social networking posts including a first set of social networking posts originating from the first application and a second set of social networking posts originating from the second application;
• tag the first set of social networking posts with a first application-specific tag and the second set of social networking posts with a second application-specific tag;
• store the plurality of social networking posts provided by a plurality of users of the social network system using a plurality of user devices, the plurality of social networking posts being received by the social network system from the plurality of user devices over a network;
• receive, over the network, an indication that an individual user of the social network system has selected a filtering control in the first application installed on an individual user device, the filtering control allowing the individual user to select application-specific filtering of the plurality of social networking posts for the second application not installed on the individual user device;
• and
• responsive to receiving the indication that the individual user selected the second application via the filtering control, filter the plurality of social networking posts based at least on the second application-specific tag to identify a subset of social networking posts that includes the second set of social networking posts and excludes at least some other application-specific social networking posts associate with another application and send the subset of social networking posts over the network from the social network system to the individual user device to be displayed to the individual user interacting with the first application.