System for managing social group interactions

A server that supports social group interactions, the server comprising:

• a group membership manager that facilitates creation of a plurality of social groups and the management of the members of the plurality of social groups, wherein each of the plurality of social groups can be assigned one or more group managers;
• a registration manager that manages a member profile for members of the plurality of social groups;
• a group interaction manager that manages interaction by members of the plurality of social groups employing their corresponding user devices, wherein the corresponding user devices are communicatively coupled to the server, and wherein each of the plurality of social groups are assigned an associated social group interaction type;
• the group interaction manager managing one-to-one interactions and one-to-many interactions within each of the plurality of social groups, wherein the interactions comprise sending and receiving messages by the members of the each of the plurality of social groups;
• the group interaction manager managing creation and dissemination of responses by the recipients of the messages communicated in the one-to-one interactions and the one-to-many interactions within each of the plurality of social groups;
• the group interaction manager also facilitating a default mode communication of a new message by one member of one of a plurality of social groups to all the other members of the one of a plurality of social groups when the group interaction type associated with the one of a plurality of social groups is a peer-to-peer group;
• the group interaction manager facilitating another default mode communication of a new message by one member of one of a plurality of social groups to only the group managers of the one of a plurality of social groups when the group interaction type associated with the one of a plurality of social groups is a managed group and the user type associated with the one member is regular;
• the group interaction manager facilitating communication of a new message by one member of one of a plurality of social groups to all the members of the one of a plurality of social groups when the group interaction type associated with the one of a plurality of social groups is managed group and the user type associated with the one member is manager;
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• wherein the new message and any response to the new message comprises at least one of a textual component, an audio component, a digital image component, a video component, a GPS coordinate component, an IP address component, a sales offer, a security information and an encrypted secure data.

A method of managing interaction in social groups supported by a server, the method comprising:

• creating managed social groups at the server based on anticipated participation by a plurality of individuals in a group activity, wherein each of the managed social groups comprises at least a group name, a group identification, a group type, a group category, a region identification, an organization identification, a primary group manager and an interaction type;
• providing a user profile for each of the plurality of individuals at the server, wherein user profile comprises at least a user identification, a contact information, personal preferences information, status, category receiving mode, subscription type, default social group identification, a user type, and a default friends list identification;
• registering the plurality of individuals to appropriate ones of the managed social groups at the server by maintaining a group-user mapping comprising the group identification, the user identification, a status and a member type;
• controlling access employing a login activity wherein each of the plurality of individuals attempt a local decentralized login on a corresponding user device communicatively coupled to the server before attempting a centralized login at the server;
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• posting selectively a one-to-one or one-to-many new message to the managed social groups by each of the plurality of individuals, wherein each of the plurality of individuals employ their corresponding user device.