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Abstract

A method for protecting user privacy in an online social network, comprising the steps of defining, for a given primary user of an online social network who is authorized to post multimedia information in an account of the social network, a personal profile type that characterizes a level of desired privacy and that is selected from a group of predetermined profile types; defining a personal profile type selected from the group for each of a plurality of secondary users who are interested in accessing posted multimedia information of the primary user while functioning as a friend thereof; and denying a request for friendship initiated by one of the plurality of secondary users when the profile type of the primary user and of the one of the plurality of secondary users are incompatible as defined by predetermined rules, that may be stored in the privacy setting module.

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