Contextual information in chat

A system comprising:

• a processor configured to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a request from a first user device to communicate with a second user device, the first user device being associated with a first user and the second user device being associated with a second user;
• determining whether location information of the second user device is available to the first user device;
• in response to determining that the location information of the second user device is available to the first user device, determining contextual activity information for the second user based on a current location of the second user device;
• generating, for display on the first user device, a visual representation of the second user and the contextual activity information in a graphical user interface that enables the first user device to communicate with the second user device;
• determining that the first user and the second user are in a same state or country;
• and
• excluding a representation of the same state or country from the graphical user interface in response to determining that the first user and the second user are in the same state or country.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that includes instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a request from a first user device to communicate with a second user device, the first user device being associated with a first user and the second user device being associated with a second user;
• determining whether location information of the second user device is available to the first user device;
• in response to determining that the location information of the second user device is available to the first user device, determining contextual activity information for the second user based on a current location of the second user device;
• and
• generating, for display on the first user device, a visual representation of the second user and the contextual activity information in a graphical user interface that enables the first user device to communicate with the second user device;
• determining that the first user and the second user are in a same state or country;
• and
• excluding a representation of the same state or country from the graphical user interface in response to determining that the first user and the second user are in the same state or country.