Finding untagged images of a social network member

A system comprising:

• a processor coupled to a computer readable storage medium, the computer readable storage medium having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:
• comparing at least one reference image of a new member of a social network system to a group of stored images in the social network system, wherein the stored images were uploaded to the social network system prior to the new member joining the social network system and the stored images have not been tagged with a tag corresponding to the new member;
• computing a metric corresponding to the stored images based on comparing the at least one reference image of a new member of a social network system to a corresponding one of the stored images, the metric representing a probability that the new member is pictured in the corresponding stored images;
• generating a list of images of the new member, wherein the generating includes identifying each stored image determined to contain an image of the new member based on a corresponding metric, each image in the list of images of the new member having a probability, above a threshold, of containing an image of the new member;
• repetitively performing the comparing and the generating according to a schedule;
• and
• enabling the new member to apply to each image in the list of images a tag corresponding to the new member and send a notification to another member associated with an image.

A nontransitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:

• comparing at least one reference image of a new member of a social network system to a group of stored images in the social network system, wherein the stored images were uploaded to the social network system prior to the new member joining the social network system and the stored images have not been tagged with a tag corresponding to the new member;
• computing a metric corresponding to the stored images based on comparing the at least one reference image of a new member of a social network system to a corresponding one of the stored images, the metric representing a probability that the new member is pictured in the corresponding stored images;
• generating a list of images of the new member, wherein the generating includes identifying each stored image determined to contain an image of the new member based on a corresponding metric, each image in the list of images of the new member having a probability, above a threshold, of containing an image of the new member;
• repetitively performing the comparing and the generating according to a schedule;
• and
• enabling the new member to apply to each image in the list of images a tag corresponding to the new member and send a notification to another member associated with an image.