Online social network applications are becoming increasingly popular. People rely on such applications to keep in touch and interact with friends and family. Typically, to utilize such an online social networking application, an individual that logs into a web site that corresponds to the application will be provided a visual depiction of messages sent to the individual as well as status updates of contacts (friends) of the individual.
While these online social networking applications are useful tools that allow people to interact with their contacts, often times messages transmitted using social networking applications are relatively short with little context associated with them. Thus, an assumption exists that an individual receiving a relatively short message will have some knowledge of what the sender of the message is referring to in the message.