Socialized dash

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software configured when executed to:

• determine that there is no interaction between a user of the mobile computing device and one or more applications being executed in the foreground on the mobile computing device;
• automatically and without user input provide for display to the user on the mobile computing device, a user interface (UI) comprising a plurality of notifications and a plurality of social-networking interactive elements each corresponding to one or more social-networking functions provided by a social-networking system, wherein the determining that there is no interaction between the user and the one or more applications being executed in the foreground is requisite to the display of the UI, and wherein at least one social-networking interactive element provides functionality for updating a status of the user on the social-networking system, and wherein the user interacts with the social-networking system directly from the user interface through the plurality of social-networking interactive elements without launching, on the mobile computing device, an application associated with the social-networking system, and wherein the UI comprises 1) the plurality of notifications, 2) the plurality of social-networking interactive elements, and 3) a background image of the UI is set to a profile picture of the user of the mobile computing device, the profile picture being associated with a social-network identification (ID) associated with the user on the social-networking system;
• receive a user interaction with the social-networking interactive element that provides functionality for updating a status of the user on the social-networking system, wherein the user interaction corresponds to a status update;
• send information associated with the user interaction to the social-networking system;
• and
• update one or more of the notifications in the UI in real-time in response to the user interaction with the social-networking system directly from the UI through the social-networking interactive element.

A device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the processor and embodying software that:
• determine that there is no interaction between a user of the mobile computing device and one or more applications being executed in the foreground on the mobile computing device;
• automatically and without user input provide for display to the user on the mobile computing device, a user interface (UI) comprising a plurality of notifications and a plurality of social-networking interactive elements each corresponding to one or more social-networking functions provided by a social-networking system, wherein the determining that there is no interaction between the user and the one or more applications being executed in the foreground is requisite to the display of the UI, and wherein at least one social-networking interactive element provides functionality for updating a status of the user on the social-networking system, and wherein the user interacts with the social-networking system directly from the user interface through the plurality of social-networking interactive elements without launching, on the mobile computing device, an application associated with the social-networking system, and wherein the UI comprises 1) the plurality of notifications, 2) the plurality of social-networking interactive elements, and 3) a background image of the UI is set to a profile picture of the user of the mobile computing device, the profile picture being associated with a social-network identification (ID) associated with the user on the social-networking system;
• receive a user interaction with the social-networking interactive element that provides functionality for updating a status of the user on the social-networking system, wherein the user interaction corresponds to a status update;
• send information associated with the user interaction to the social-networking system;
• and
• update one or more of the notifications in the UI in real-time in response to the user interaction with the social-networking system directly from the UI through the social-networking interactive element.