Method and system for providing searching and contributing in a social media ecosystem

A system for social media ecosystem searching and contributing, comprising in combination:

• one or more server network devices with one or more processors;
• one or more target network devices with one or more processors;
• the one or more server network devices and the one or more network devices including one more or more non transitory computer readable mediums the one or more non transitory computer readable mediums including a plurality of instructions that when executed by a processor causes:
• creating a social media ecosystem for searching and contributing on a plurality of cloud server network devices each with one or more processors on a cloud communications network, a plurality of pooled cloud hardware resources comprising:
• (1) automatic provisioning of the plurality of pooled cloud hardware resources as needed and available via the plurality of cloud broadband network access components on the plurality of cloud server network devices, (2) automatic scaling of the plurality of pooled cloud hardware resources to obtain and release one or more of the plurality of pooled cloud hardware resources as required, (3) automatic controlling and optimizing the pooled cloud hardware resources with a metering method, and (4) a plurality of cloud software services for automated processing of the social media ecosystem searching and contributing information comprising:
• cloud networking services, storage services, virtualization services, operating system services, run-time services, data services and application services executing on the plurality of pooled cloud hardware resources;
• selecting on a first cloud application on a first cloud server network device with one or more processors stored in a first non-transitory computer readable medium, a cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a Specific cloud software service as a Service (SaaS) including one or more specific cloud software services for social media ecosystem searching and contributing from the plurality of from the cloud software services executing on the plurality of pooled cloud hardware resources;
• providing on the social media ecosystem for searching and contributing via the selected SaaS via the first cloud application via the cloud communications network a plurality of sets of personal electronic information to be completed on a plurality of target applications on the plurality of target network devices each with one or more processors operated by a plurality of users;
• providing a selected set of personal electronic information from the plurality of sets of electronic information allowing an individual user operating an individual target network device to select via an individual target application on the individual target network device a plurality of individual set items for:
• (1) designating the individual user is in a time-of-need due to an unexpected life event, (2) designating a preferred support organization that will assist the individual user directly during the time-of-need due to the unexpected life event, (3) allowing a plurality other users operating other target network devices to make electronic charitable donations to the preferred support organization to assist the individual user during the time-of-need due to the unexpected life event, and (4) allowing the individual user to selectively enable and disable viewing of, by the plurality of other users, other sets of personal electronic information created by the individual user, thereby allowing the plurality other users to make electronic charitable donations only to the preferred support organization to assist the individual user during the time-of-need due to the unexpected life event;
• receiving on the social media ecosystem for searching and contributing via the selected SaaS via the first cloud application on the first cloud server network device with the one or more processors via the cloud communications network, a plurality of sets of personal electronic information from the plurality of target applications on the plurality of target network devices each with one or m ore processors operated by the plurality of individual users;
• extracting on the first cloud application via the selected SaaS the received plurality of sets of personal electronic information into a plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items including a plurality of pre-determined categories;
• storing from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS the extracted plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items in a plurality of cloud storage objects on the cloud communications network;
• linking from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS selected ones of list items from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items to one or more social media sites in the social media ecosystem for searching and contributing via the cloud communications network;
• linking from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS other selected ones of list items from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items to one or more preferred electronic commerce vendor sites via the cloud communications network;
• linking from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS other selected ones of the list items from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items to one or more charitable organization sites via the cloud communications network;
• linking from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS other selected ones of the list items from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items to one or more preferred support organizations sites providing time-of-need financial assistance directly to any of the plurality of individual users due to unexpected life events via the cloud communications network;
• providing the social media ecosystem for searching and contributing from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS with a combination public and private access to the plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items for the plurality of individual users stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects on the cloud communications network linked to one or more social media sites, one or more preferred electronic commerce vendor sites, one or more charitable organization sites and one or more preferred support organizations sites, wherein the public access includes publically viewable search results from public search engines, social media sites and social media connections for the plurality of users and the private access including requiring a searcher to provide login information and permission access information to privately access a desired account for a desired user from the plurality of individual users;
• providing controlled public access from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS to a plurality of general search engine sites and the plurality of social media sites via the cloud communications network to the plurality of individual users for the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items;
• accepting on the first cloud application via the selected SaaS a plurality of public search requests for any of the plurality of individual users for which the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items are available via the cloud communications network;
• providing from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS, secure private access with permission-based viewing of and private electronic purchase operations on the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items for the plurality of individual users;
• accepting on the first cloud application via the selected SaaS, secure private electronic purchases of favorite items or electronic contributions to a charity or time-of-need financial assistance contributions from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items for any of the plurality of individual users for which the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items are available via the cloud communications network;
• ensuring via the selected SaaS, secure private access with login information and permission-based access control, private viewing and private electronic purchase operations on the plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items so that social media connections are properly established, recorded and updated for the plurality of individual users in the social media ecosystem for controlled access public user searching and secure private contributing;
• providing via the selected SaaS a layer of security and a layer of privacy for each of the plurality of individual users in the social media ecosystem for public user searching and secure private contributing;
• determining from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS whether a selected user of a selected target network device has included a time-of-need financial assistance request in a list item from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items received from the selected target network device, and if so,
• sending automatically from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS via the cloud communications network one or more first messages to the one or more support organization sites linked to the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items received from the selected target network device for the selected user indicating the selected user is in a time-of-need, and
• sending automatically from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS via the cloud communications networks one or more second messages to the one or more social media sites linked to the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items received from the selected target network device for the selected user indicating the selected user is in a time-of-need;
• determining from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS whether a selected user of a selected target network device has included a coupon request in a list item from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items received from the selected target network device, and if so,
• sending automatically from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS via the cloud communications network one or more first messages to the selected target network device including one or more electronic coupons from one or more electronic commerce vendors for one or more favorite items for the selected user;
• providing from the first cloud application via the selected SaaS a plurality of electronic forms via the cloud communications network to the plurality of target applications on the plurality of target network devices to allow selection of individual electronic lists of favorite items, one or more social media sites, or more electronic commerce vendor sites, one or more charitable organization sites and one or more support organizations sites providing time-of-need financial assistance;
• receiving on the first cloud application via the selected SaaS via the cloud communications network one or messages including the plurality of sets of personal electronic information from the plurality of target applications on the plurality of target network devices;
• receiving on the first cloud application via the selected SaaS one or more requests to electronically purchase one or more of the favorite items or make one or more electronic contributions to one or more charities or one or more time-of-need financial assistance contributions from one or more target applications on the one or more target network devices via the communications network;
• and
• completing on the first cloud application via the selected SaaS the one or more requested electronic purchases of the one or more favorite items or the one or more electronic contributions to the charity or the one or more time-of-need financial assistance contributions from the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items for any of the plurality of individual users for which the stored plurality of individual electronic lists of favorite items are available via the communications network.