Patent ID: 8880447

Claim:
A social-networking system comprising: a preference unit for receiving a user selection indicating a type of media-selection behavior to monitor from among a plurality of presented types of media-selection behavior; a monitoring unit for: generating a first data set comprising information about the indicated type of media-selection behavior of a first user, wherein the first data set includes: information about interactions, by the first user, with music resources accessed through a website; and information about interactions, by the first user, with music resources stored on a media playback device in communication with a separate client computing device used to access the website; and collecting a plurality of other data sets comprising information about media-selection behavior of a plurality of other users; and a matching unit for: comparing, by a processor, the first data set to each of the plurality of other data sets; and selecting a subset of the plurality of other users as matches for the first user, based on application of a predetermined matching algorithm to the comparing of the first data set to each of the plurality of other data sets.