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The Downside of Graph Search

Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 3:23 am
by Bappy10
People who like movies (for example friends who like Django Unchained);
Pictures of my high school friends;
Friends who live in my place;
Restaurants nearby that my friends like.
Search Bar Facebook sociogram

In addition, you can also combine keywords and even add things yourself. For example, locations, time periods, list to data likes and interests to get an even more specific result. Some examples:

Friends who live in Utrecht and work at Coca-Cola;
Photos of my friends before 1999;
Music that people like, who like my favorite music.
Facebook Social Graph Photos Friends

It's only a matter of time before the next search capabilities are added to Graph Search. You could then search within Facebook for posts, comments or even events.
It seems that Facebook's Graph Search also has a downside. More is being exposed than you would like. In the first tests of users with this search engine, a number of frustrating search results are already coming to the fore. Henk van Ess of VVOJ Medialab shows in his demo that the search results go very far . For example, it appears that you can find people in Amsterdam who like weapons, or actors who are currently working as waiters.