INTEGRATING SENSATION FUNCTIONALITY INTO SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods, apparatuses, systems and computer-readable media for integrating sensation functionality into social networking services and/or social networking applications.SOLUTION: A computing device causes haptic feedback to be provided to at least one user of the social networking service, based at least in part on haptic data and the at least one user's relationship with a sender of a status update within the social networking service. In at least one arrangement, first haptic feedback is provided to the user if the user is within a first group of users, and second haptic feedback different from the first haptic feedback is provided to the user if the user is within a second group of users different from the first group of users.SELECTED DRAWING: None