So I am trying to develop an activity feed for my site. Basically If I UNION a bunch of activities into a feed I would end up with something like the following.

Chris is now friends with Mark

Chris is now friends with Dave

What I want though is a neater way of grouping these similar posts so the feed doesn't give information overload...

E.g.

Chris is now friends with Mark, Dave and 4 Others

Any ideas on how I can approach this logically? I am using Classic ASP on SQL server. Here is the UNION statement I have so far:

SELECT 
    U.UserID As UserID, L.UN As UN,Left(U.UID,13) As ProfilePic,U.Fname 
    + ' ' 
    + U.Sname As FullName, 'said ' 
    + WP.Post AS Activity, WP.Ctime
FROM
    Users AS U LEFT JOIN Logins L ON L.userID = U.UserID 
LEFT OUTER JOIN 
    WallPosts AS WP ON WP.userID = U.userID WHERE WP.Ctime IS NOT NULL
UNION SELECT
    U.UserID As UserID, L.UN As UN,Left(U.UID,13) As ProfilePic,U.Fname 
    + ' ' 
    + U.Sname As FullName, 'commented ' 
    + C.Comment AS Activity, C.Ctime
FROM Users AS U 
LEFT JOIN Logins L ON L.userID = U.UserID 
LEFT OUTER JOIN
    Comments AS C ON C.UserID = U.userID WHERE C.Ctime IS NOT NULL
UNION SELECT 
    U.UserID As UserID, L.UN As UN,Left(U.UID,13) As ProfilePic, U.Fname 
    + ' ' 
    + U.Sname As FullName, 'connected with <a href="/profile.asp?un='+(SELECT Logins.un FROM Logins WHERE Logins.userID = Cn.ToUserID)+'">' 
    + (SELECT Users.Fname 
    + ' ' 
    + Users.Sname FROM Users WHERE userID = Cn.ToUserID) 
    + '</a>' AS Activity, Cn.Ctime
FROM 
    Users AS U 
LEFT JOIN 
    Logins L ON L.userID = U.UserID 
LEFT OUTER JOIN
    Connections AS Cn ON Cn.UserID = U.userID WHERE CN.Ctime IS NOT NULL