16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the tagged objects identify one or more other users who are tagged in the image, and the user profile includes information about the viewing user's connections, and further wherein the scoring step further includes the calculation of a connection score using the tagged users and the viewing user's connections.
15. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing user profiles for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system; storing information for each of a plurality of objects in the social networking system; storing a plurality of connections between each of the plurality of the users and the other users or objects in the social networking system; accessing a plurality of images provided by a posting user of the plurality of users; receiving a request from a viewing user of the plurality of users to access an album, the album comprising a set of images selected from the plurality of images; identifying one or more tagged objects in the images in the album, where a tagged object is an object of the plurality of objects in the social networking system; computing a score using a plurality of scoring functions for one or more of the plurality of images comprising adjusting one or more metrics of a plurality of metrics of the plurality of scoring functions such that a subset of the plurality of images to be selected is diverse with respect to the types of scores, where the plurality of scoring functions use the plurality of metrics to compute the score and the score for an image is based at least in part on an affinity between information from a user profile of the viewing user and the one or more tagged objects in the image; selecting the subset of the plurality of images based on the computed scores; and sending for display to the viewing user an album, the album comprising the selected subset of the plurality of images.