1. A method comprising: by one or more computer devices, receiving from a user a request for a media item; by one or more computer devices, accessing the stored media item and metadata associated with the media item, wherein the metadata identify one or more persons depicted in the media item, and wherein the one or more persons are each associated with a node of a social graph of a social-networking system; by one or more computer devices, obtaining information associated with the one or more persons from the social graph; by one or more computing devices, determining a social context associated with the media item using the metadata and information from the social graph; by one or more computing devices, determining a relevance of the social context to the user; by one or more computing devices, generating a display filter based on the relevance of the social context; by one or more computing devices, receiving an instruction from the user to enable the display filter; by one or more computing devices, selecting one or more media items associated with the social context in response to the received instruction; and by one or more computing devices, providing for display to the user one or more of the selected media items.