1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing, at a social networking system, a user profile for a user of the social networking system, the user connected to other users of the social networking system; persistently storing, at the social networking system, social context information of digital photographs associated with the user; receiving a request to generate one or more prints of a digital photograph associated with the user, and to include social context information describing one or more characteristics of the digital photograph that are associated with the user; retrieving, by the social networking system, the social context information that is associated with the digital photograph and persistently stored at the social networking system, the social context information naming both another user connected to the user in the social networking system that is shown in the digital photograph and another user connected to the user in the social networking system that commented on the digital photograph in the social networking system; and transmitting the digital photograph and the social context information to a photograph developer, the photograph developer generating a physical print including the digital photograph and the social context information printed on the physical print, the printed social context information naming on the physical print both the other user connected to the user in the social networking system that is shown in the digital photograph and the other user connected to the user in the social networking system that commented on the digital photograph in the social networking system.