Patent ID: RE44905

Claim:
A social networking method comprising: establishing an online networking environment to enable a plurality of users to engage in a social networking game; and operating a user interface in the online networking environment to enable a first user of the social networking game to: select a first tag to convey to a second user, the first tag representing a trait of the second being customized by the first user as attributed by the first to be representative of personal characteristics of the second user; convey the first tag to the second user to enable the second user to add the first tag to the second user's tag collection; wherein the first tag is displayed in a profile page associated with the second user subsequent to the second user accepting the first tag conveyed by the first user ; wherein the first user selects the first tag from at least one of a first tag respiratory and a second tag repository, wherein the second tag repository includes a plurality of tags maintained by an operator of the online networking environment.