Patent ID: 8112501

Claim:
A system for managing network activities, comprising: a central registration server that is configured to perform actions, including: receiving a request to be centrally registered by a visitor to at least one social networking site among a plurality of social networking sites, wherein the plurality of social networking sites are different from the central registration server; receiving visitor information from the visitor including at least an alias or an avatar; providing the visitor with a unique identifier that is unique to the visitor; and a social networking site among the plurality of social networking sites, configured to perform actions, including: receiving a request from the visitor to access content at the social networking site; receiving the unique identifier from the visitor; employing the unique identifier to access at least some of the visitor information from the central registration server; and selectively displaying, by the social networking site being visited by the visitor, the at least some visitor information within a reader roll, wherein the reader roll includes visitor information associated with at least one other visitor to the social networking site that is not currently accessing the social networking site, and wherein selectively displaying comprises enabling the visitor to select to display visitor information at one social networking site while not displaying the visitor information at another social networking site among the plurality of social networking sites.