User profile creation for social networks

A computer program product for updating a user social network profile of a user based on relevant activities posted by other users in a same social network by a computer comprising at least one processor, one or more memories, one or more computer readable storage media, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the computer to perform a method comprising:

• collecting, by the computer, profile information from the user for the user social network profile comprising at least an image of the user;
• determining, by the computer, social network friends of the user by determining which social network friends have a high social correlation with the user, wherein the high social correlation is determined by the computer comparing the user social network profile of the user to user profiles of social network friends to determine a number of friends the user has in common with each of the social network friends and determining that a social network friend has a high social correlation with the user when the number of friends in common is greater than a threshold;
• collecting, by the computer, only social network posts by the social network friends of the user containing images;
• identifying, by the computer, images within the social network posts by the social network friends of the user through facial image recognition which have images containing the user based on the image of the user in the user social network profile;
• determining, by the computer, information from the identified images containing the user within the social network posts by the social network friends of the user for inclusion in the user social network profile;
• generating, by the computer, a combined user profile with the profile information collected from the user and information from the identified images within the social network posts by the social network friends which were identified as containing the user;
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• updating, by the computer, the user social network profile with the combined user profile.

A computer system for updating a user social network profile of a user based on relevant activities posted by other user in a same social network comprising a computer comprising at least one processor, one or more memories, one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions executable by the computer to perform the program instructions comprising:

• collecting, by the computer, profile information from the user for the user social network profile comprising at least an image of the user;
• determining, by the computer, social network friends of the user by determining which social network friends have a high social correlation with the user, wherein the high social correlation is determined by the computer comparing the user social network profile of the user to user profiles of social network friends to determine a number of friends the user has in common with each of the social network friends and determining that a social network friend has a high social correlation with the user when the number of friends in common is greater than a threshold;
• collecting, by the computer, only social network posts by the social network friends of the user containing images;
• identifying, by the computer, images within the social network posts by the social network friends of the user through facial image recognition which have images containing the user based on the image of the user in the user social network profile;
• determining, by the computer, information from the identified images containing the user within the social network posts by the social network friends of the user for inclusion in the user social network profile;
• generating, by the computer, a combined user profile with the profile information collected from the user and information from the identified images within the social network posts by the social network friends which were identified as containing the user;
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• updating, by the computer, the user social network profile with the combined user profile.