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A lot of hate for graph search going on but I am pretty excited. > photos I like taken in New York in 2010 - great way to find something again without filterin
by AustinGibbons 14y ago
A lot of hate for graph search going on but I am pretty excited.
> photos I like taken in New York in 2010 - great way to find something again without filtering through activity log or remembering (all the) details
> friends in Austin, Texas - because _people move_ and I travel
> friends who like ultimate frisbee - I meet a lot of people and play a lot of frisbee, it would be stellar to have an auto-populated list of friends (not just the regulars) who would be down to play
> friends who like Book of Mormon - who should I be asking for a recommendation?
> people who going to event X and event Y - now we can carpool
> people in group X and group Y and group Z - similarly
> Stephanie who went to Mike's event and is friends with James - use case from below (that I encounter about once a month) of trying to find someone with a sparsity of details.
I can't think of any way to (nearly as easily) get this information without graph search, and frankly I think it's awesome.
- purplelobster 14y agoI doubt I'd use it for any of those reasons, but I guess it doesn't hurt to have the search there. Just like outfitting your blog with a search function, this improves the usability of the site a bit, but I'd hardly think it would be a very big profit maker for Facebook. On the other hand, if it helped you reach out to people you don't know for various reasons, maybe to find a language studying partner, people to play sports with etc, that would be more useful. It would also be perfect for businesses when they want to find and target messages to a certain audience. The only problem is, I doubt very many people would like to share their information with anyone outside of their friends, I sure don't.