Patent ID: 8751407

Claim:
A system for facilitating creation of an ad hoc social networking forum for a cohort of users, the system comprising: one or more physical processors programmed with computer readable instructions to: obtain, from one or more publicly available sources, information related to a first cohort prior to receiving a user request to join a first social networking forum that is related to the first cohort, the first cohort comprising a plurality of users that have a pre-established association with a first experience scheduled to occur at a first time, first date, and a first location, the information related to the first cohort comprising information related to the first experience; and receive a request from a first user of the first cohort to join the first social networking forum associated with the first cohort; determine whether the first social networking forum has been created; and responsive to a determination that the first social networking forum has not been created: create the first social networking forum; and add the first user as a member of the first social networking forum; and facilitate sharing of one or more items of content via the first social networking forum.