20. The method of claim 11 , further comprising: managing, by the one or more physical processors, access of a third party to the first social networking forum; and facilitating, by the one or more physical processors, provision of advertising content by the third party to the first social networking forum.
11. A computer-implemented method for facilitating creation of an ad hoc social networking forum for a cohort of users, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more physical processors programmed with computer readable instructions to, the method comprising: obtaining, by the one or more physical processors, from one or more publicly available sources, information related to a first cohort prior to receiving a user request to join a first social networking forum that is related to the first cohort, the first cohort comprising a plurality of users that have a pre-established association with a first experience scheduled to occur at a first time, first date, and a first location, the information related to the first cohort comprising information related to the first experience; and receiving, by the one or more physical processors, a request from a first user of the first cohort to join the first social networking forum associated with the first cohort; determining, by the one or more physical processors, whether the first social networking forum has been created; and responsive to a determination that the first social networking forum has not been created: creating, by the one or more physical processors, the first social networking forum; and adding, by the one or more physical processors, the first user as a member of the first social networking forum; and facilitating, by the one or more physical processors, sharing of one or more items of content via the first social networking forum.