1. A method comprising: storing, in a storage unit of a social network system, a plurality of queues of posts that each correspond to one of a plurality of user profiles in the social network system, wherein each post in each of the queues of posts comprises a life story of the corresponding one of the user profiles, wherein each post in each of the queues of posts has a thread comprising the post and any comments made concerning the post, wherein the social network system allows ones of the user profiles to be connected within the social network system, and wherein the social network system provides each user profile in the user profiles a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents posts from the queues of posts for ones of the user profiles that are connected to the user profile; storing, in the storage unit, a plurality of notification settings that each correspond to one of the user profiles, wherein each notification setting in the notification settings is configurable for a user profile in the user profiles to specify that existing posts with a new comment and new posts from the queues of posts for the ones of the user profiles that are connected to the user profile are added to the GUI for the user profile, and wherein the notification setting is configurable for the user profile to specify that the new posts are added to the GUI for the user profile and that the existing posts with a new comment are not added to the GUI for the user profile; generating, by a processor of the social network system, the GUI for a first user profile among the user profiles that presents the posts from the queues of posts for the ones of the user profiles that are connected to the first user profile according to the notification setting of the first user profile; and providing the GUI for the first user profile for display on a user device of the first user profile.