Abstract: Systems and methods for personal social travel mapping are provided. A server maintains a travel profile for a plurality of users and translates a user's travel profile information into a visual representation having geographic boundaries (footprint). The footprints of two or more users can be compared and analyzed to identify common travel patterns, suggest user connections, identify a set of users to send queries to, identify targeted advertising to send to a user and filter content items. A user's social connections can also be used to filter comments on content items. The system includes a server device and may also include a mobile device with location tracking capability to automatically notify the server device of a user's travel and a messaging capability to allow the user to communicate with other users.