Systems and methods for providing personalized content

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform:
• generating a set of candidate content items from a plurality of content items that are available in the social networking system, wherein one or more of the candidate content items are to be included in a personalized content stream for a first user, wherein at least one candidate content item to be included in the personalized content stream is selected based on the at least one candidate content item being posted by a user that is located in a geographic region in which the first user is also located or has visited;
• generating a corresponding score for each of the candidate content items with respect to the first user;
• and
• determining a first set of content items from the set of candidate content items based at least in part on the respective scores, wherein content items in the first set are included in the personalized content stream.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

• generating a set of candidate content items from a plurality of content items that are available in the social networking system, wherein one or more of the candidate content items are to be included in a personalized content stream for a first user, wherein at least one candidate content item to be included in the personalized content stream is selected based on the at least one candidate content item being posted by a user that is located in a geographic region in which the first user is also located or has visited;
• generating a corresponding score for each of the candidate content items with respect to the first user;
• and
• determining a first set of content items from the set of candidate content items based at least in part on the respective scores, wherein content items in the first set are included in the personalized content stream.