9. One or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a first user, information specifying one or more attributes of a story related to a second user; obtaining content items from a social network, with the content items comprising one or more content items in the social network related to the story and related to the second user and one or more content items in the social network unrelated to the story and related to the second user; filtering the obtained content items to include only one or more of the one or more content items related to the story and related to the second user, with a content item being related to the story when the content item satisfies one or more of the one or more attributes, and with the content item being related to the second user when a node representing the content item in a social graph of the social network is connected in the social graph to another node representing the second user; and generating, based on the filtered content, data for a graphical user interface that when rendered by a device used by the first user, comprises a visual representation of the story.
9. One or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a first user, information specifying one or more attributes of a story related to a second user; obtaining content items from a social network, with the content items comprising one or more content items in the social network related to the story and related to the second user and one or more content items in the social network unrelated to the story and related to the second user; filtering the obtained content items to include only one or more of the one or more content items related to the story and related to the second user, with a content item being related to the story when the content item satisfies one or more of the one or more attributes, and with the content item being related to the second user when a node representing the content item in a social graph of the social network is connected in the social graph to another node representing the second user; and generating, based on the filtered content, data for a graphical user interface that when rendered by a device used by the first user, comprises a visual representation of the story. 11. The one or more non-transitory machine-readable media of claim 9 , wherein obtaining the content items comprises: traversing the social graph of the social network to identify content items associated with the second user.