Social media systems and methods and mobile devices therefor

A social media system for initiating direct person-to-person communications and social interactions between users of the system including an initiating user of the system and a recipient user of the system but with whom the initiating user is unacquainted, the system comprising:

• a mobile network connected to a plurality of mobile devices of the users of the system, the mobile devices including initiating and recipient mobile devices of the initiating and recipient users, respectively, each of the mobile devices having non-transitory processor-readable media, an app comprising processor-executable instructions stored in the non-transitory processor-readable media and operating on the mobile devices, a processor for executing the processor-executable instructions stored on the non-transitory processor-readable media, a camera, a display, a location device, and a transceiver enabling the mobile devices to communicate with the mobile network, the app enabling user content of the recipient user of the recipient mobile device to be accessed by the initiating user of the initiating mobile device when the initiating and recipient mobile devices are connected to the mobile network, the app enabling the mobile devices to perform operations comprising:
• creating with the recipient mobile device a first code for the recipient user and creating with the initiating mobile device a second code for the initiating user, the first and second codes each being created by, respectively, the recipient and initiating users from responses thereof to questions about their individual traits, preferences, intentions, personality, and interests, the responses being visually represented as gradients or shades within a single visual display of the first and second codes as a quick summary of the traits, preferences, intentions, personality, and interests of the recipient and initiating users, respectively;
• indicating with the recipient mobile device a geographic location associated with a user location of the recipient user corresponding to a physical location of the recipient mobile device that is detected by the location device of the recipient mobile device;
• creating a virtual object associated with the recipient user and storing the virtual object in the media of the recipient mobile device and/or non-transitory processor-readable media of the mobile network;
• setting with the recipient mobile device privacy settings of the recipient user that limit whether the initiating mobile device is notified of the recipient mobile device and limit access by the initiating mobile device of the initiating user to only selectively accessible portions of the user content of the recipient user;
• setting with the initiating mobile device filters for filtering the selectively accessible portions of the user content of the recipient user accessed by the initiating mobile device to yield a filtered user content, at least a first of the filters filtering the user content based on distance of the initiating mobile device from the user location and at least a second of the filters filtering the user content based on matching of the first code of the recipient user with the second code of the initiating user;
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• when the initiating user is within a geographic area surrounding the user location of the recipient user and the privacy settings of the recipient mobile device permit the initiating mobile device to be notified of the recipient mobile device, enabling the initiating user to detect the recipient user by scanning the geographic area through the camera of the initiating mobile device to display on the display of the initiating mobile device a live-world view of the geographic area in real time and then, if the selectively accessible portions of the user content of the recipient user are not filtered by the filters of the initiating mobile device, the app augmenting the live world view displayed on the display of the initiating mobile device with the virtual object associated with the recipient user as a location-based augmented reality feature of the app, and after the virtual object is detected, transmitting only the selectively accessible portions of the user content of the recipient user to the initiating mobile device of the initiating user, and displaying on the display of the initiating mobile device only the filtered user content of the selectively accessible portions of the user content that pass through the filters on the initiating mobile device of the initiating user,
• wherein the app enables the initiating user to access the selectively accessible portions of the user content of the recipient user by tapping on the virtual object of the recipient user displayed in the live-world view displayed on the display of the initiating mobile device.