Abstract: Social networking systems and methods for facilitating in-person interactions including the steps of storing a user profile for a first user into a database accessible by a networked host computer, the user profile including interest information describing the first user's interests, cross referencing an interest information indicia with the interest information, providing the first user with an indicator that includes the interest information indicia and that is configured to communicate the interest information indicia to nearby users, providing a second user with the interest information of the first user upon the second user accessing the host computer and entering the interest information indicia as a search query. The invention may facilitate in-person interaction, electronic dating, social networking, and other communication.