Prioritizing messages in an activity stream with an actionable item or event for the user to respond

A computer program product for handling an overwhelming amount of messages in an activity stream, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code comprising the programming instructions for:

• monitoring messages in said activity stream of a user;
• recording said monitored messages in a database;
• identifying messages of said monitored messages in said activity stream of said user requiring a response to an actionable item or event, wherein said actionable item or event comprises an event, task, activity or action that needs to take place, wherein natural language processing is used to identify said actionable item or event in said monitored messages, wherein deadlines, keywords, phrases or punctuation marks are identified in said monitored messages to indicate a required response to said actionable item or event;
• prioritizing said identified messages and placing said prioritized messages in a list based on the following factors:
• deadline, relationship of sender of message to said user, a desired social relationship by said user with sender of message and event schedule;
• displaying a subset of said prioritized messages in said list of said prioritized messages that are most urgent for said user to respond on a user interface of a client device of said user in a separate view for said user so that said user can view said subset of said prioritized messages in said list of said prioritized messages separately from other messages in response to said user logging onto said client device;
• and
• reposting a message in said list of said prioritized messages based on a prior agreement as indicated in a profile of said user, wherein said user profile indicates that messages from a sender who has a particular type of relationship with said user are to be reposted.

A system, comprising:

• a memory unit for storing a computer program for handling an overwhelming amount of messages in an activity stream;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory unit, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program instructions of the computer program comprising:
• monitoring messages in said activity stream of a user;
• recording said monitored messages in a database;
• identifying messages of said monitored messages in said activity stream of said user requiring a response to an actionable item or event, wherein said actionable item or event comprises an event, task, activity or action that needs to take place, wherein natural language processing is used to identify said actionable item or event in said monitored messages, wherein deadlines, keywords, phrases or punctuation marks are identified in said monitored messages to indicate a required response to said actionable item or event;
• prioritizing said identified messages and placing said prioritized messages in a list based on the following factors:
• deadline, relationship of sender of message to said user, a desired social relationship by said user with sender of message and event schedule;
• displaying a subset of said prioritized messages in said list of said prioritized messages that are most urgent for said user to respond on a user interface of a client device of said user in a separate view for said user so that said user can view said subset of said prioritized messages in said list of said prioritized messages separately from other messages in response to said user logging onto said client device;
• and
• reposting a message in said list of said prioritized messages based on a prior agreement as indicated in a profile of said user, wherein said user profile indicates that messages from a sender who has a particular type of relationship with said user are to be reposted.