1. A method for creating a short biography for a user of a social networking system, comprising: maintaining a user profile including biographical information items about the user, wherein a subset of the biographical information items comprise a temporal element; selecting two or more biographical information items from the user's user profile as most temporally relevant based at least in part on the temporal elements associated with the two or more biographical information items; concatenating the two or more selected most temporally relevant biographical information items from the user's user profile into a short biography for the user; and transmitting the short biography to a viewer for display in connection with the user's user profile.