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Does anyone remember that FB feature when you were able to cross search people? "Men between 20 and 30 who likes football and lives in NYC" It was available fo
by haunter 7y ago
Does anyone remember that FB feature when you were able to cross search people? "Men between 20 and 30 who likes football and lives in NYC"
It was available for a few months, I don't remember exactly. That was around 2011-12. That was the craziest thing I've ever seen
- typon 7y agoIt was available from March 2013 to June 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Graph_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Graph_Search
- graeme 7y agoThey dramatically reduced it after a few months however.
- rensbaardman 7y agoTo see how creepy and invasive this was, see the 'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' that Tom Scott compiled: https://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/ https://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/
- skylanh 7y agoI don't recall that I did this, but I remember a very smart ER doctor I used to work with running some basic statistics against Facebook in 2006-2008 which identified singles by gender and age categories. The year may be wrong, but based on what I was studying at the time, and my relationship status, that's probably the timeframe.
- Minor49er 7y agoYou can target these users with Facebook's advertisement settings if you're buying ads from them
- jsjddbbwj 7y agoI was very sad when they removed it. Current Facebook user search is gimped and simply disappointing. So bad that for some time I wondered if I was part of the bad group of an A/B test. It was also very good when you could look up people by email or telephone.