Patent ID: 7707251

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for facilitating social network interaction among online users over a computer network using a web browser, the method comprising: providing, by a server computer, a graphical user interface that is separately and simultaneously accessible by users of a plurality of client computers on the network, the graphical user interface having a drawing portion that includes a drawing tool for creating illustrations and a posting portion separated from the drawing portion for displaying the illustrations; receiving, by the server computer, a first illustration from a user of a first client computer, the first illustration being created using the drawing tool; posting, by the server computer on the posting portion of the graphical user interface, the first illustration next to an identification of the user of the first client computer; receiving, by the server computer, a second illustration from a user of a second client computer, the second illustration being created using the drawing tool; and posting, by the server computer on the posting portion of the graphical user interface adjacent to the first illustration, the second illustration next to an identification of the user of the second client computer.