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The most impressive Facebook's feature was hands down Graph Search [1] which was released around this time - 2013. Basically it was an interface to the entire s
by matesz 4y ago
The most impressive Facebook's feature was hands down Graph Search [1] which was released around this time - 2013. Basically it was an interface to the entire social graph!
Eventually they had to pull those features out. Privacy concerns which lead to people sharing less data? Not sure.
Even now a lot of people get surprised when I put their full name into search box and show them what photos are available via simple search - they completely forget or don't know even that when they are tagged their photos are searchable by their name. I mean now most people I know don't share much anymore, facebook is not that cool anymore.
[1] great demo of graph search https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySRn7c736c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySRn7c736c
- pfisherman 4y agoProbably because open access to an entire community’s / nation’s social graph is a huge security risk. I mean if the NSA having access to all your phone call metadata isn’t already bad enough, why would you want any and all malicious state actors, criminal organizations, terrorists, or run of the mill scammers to have access to that type of information too?
- thaeli 4y agoYeah, it was the Cambridge Analytica scandal that killed this off iirc.