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Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by alaskamiller »

zaidf wrote: post #83
simonsarris wrote: post #53

This is an important step for Facebook and I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it (all ~50 comments so far are about the graph search). The big thing here isn't graph search, or the fancy searching per se. The big thing here is this: > "and meet new people, too." This is huge. Huge! Facebook from the start was envisioned as a sort-of dating platform but that part of it got swept under the rug real quick. Throug…

I consider the "meet new people" a downgrade for facebook than an upgrade. I hope that is not a direction they pursue aggressively because it risks making facebook less relevant. One of the things that made facebook different is the expectation that you're somewhat creepy if you just go around friending random people. As a long time facebook user, I prefer it stay that way.

Just to play devil's advocate... creepiness is defined by the generation _after_ you. It's inherently defined, something creeps along, up, or around. So, really, what you think actually doesn't matter. It's what the 16 yo kids think is cool. And if they enjoy spending all afternoon after school going through Facebook profiles, well I guess so it goes.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by django34211 »

simonsarris wrote: post #53

This is an important step for Facebook and I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it (all ~50 comments so far are about the graph search). The big thing here isn't graph search, or the fancy searching per se. The big thing here is this: > "and meet new people, too." This is huge. Huge! Facebook from the start was envisioned as a sort-of dating platform but that part of it got swept under the rug real quick. Throug…

There are tons of use cases for FB graph. I find it interesting that they also mentioned job recruiting as a use case. I think they are gonna try take market share from other social networks, such as Linkedin.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by MehdiEG »

simonsarris wrote: post #53

This is an important step for Facebook and I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it (all ~50 comments so far are about the graph search). The big thing here isn't graph search, or the fancy searching per se. The big thing here is this: > "and meet new people, too." This is huge. Huge! Facebook from the start was envisioned as a sort-of dating platform but that part of it got swept under the rug real quick. Throug…

Completely agree on that. That's actually the very first Facebook feature that got me excited and that might make me go back to Facebook.

This is also the obvious next step for social networks and one that quite a few startups (including ourselves) have been working on for the past couple of years under the "people discovery" banner. Can't wait to see this in action.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by guptaneil »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #73
guptaneil wrote: post #65

For a company that claims to understand the importance of mobile, why are the videos still in Flash? There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have used HTML5 with Flash fallback here.

I just watched them on an iPad. Perhaps it's The other way round?

Really? I tried viewing from an iPad and saw the following message: https://tabuleapp.com/u/files/image_135827900654910.jpg

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by pault »

trendspotter wrote: post #63
simonsarris wrote: post #53

This is an important step for Facebook and I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it (all ~50 comments so far are about the graph search). The big thing here isn't graph search, or the fancy searching per se. The big thing here is this: > "and meet new people, too." This is huge. Huge! Facebook from the start was envisioned as a sort-of dating platform but that part of it got swept under the rug real quick. Throug…

So far you can only search entities related to the friends of your friends. A journalist who was at the FB live event said.

For most people, friends of friends is a very large, semi-curated group of people.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by aganek »

state_machine wrote: post #79
aganek wrote: post #60

I think this a big deal. The first step to a Yelp killer? Type in "Italian Restaurant" and get back list of all the restaurants your friends have checked into. A recommendation engine. For now, its mostly to filter your facebook data. But do you think it can expand and become the goto search engine, ala google?

You're describing foursquare.

Yes. A better comparison.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by bunkat »

andrewmunn wrote: post #85
Irregardless wrote: post #64

Great, now I have even more reason to stop tagging friends, like fewer things, tighten my privacy restrictions, and tell friends to stop tagging me or checking me in to places. I have no interest in my personal info being used for their search engine, nor do I want friends of friends (i.e. strangers) to contact me just because I like the same TV show or went to their favorite restaurant.

If you don't want friends of friends seeing stuff, why don't you just set your privacy to friend's only?

This doesn't actually help since your friends control a lot of your privacy. Remember when Mark's sister's photo ended up on Twitter? She had her privacy set to friend's only... It also doesn't prevent friends from tagging you in photos or signing you in places.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by Irregardless »

andrewmunn wrote: post #85
Irregardless wrote: post #64

Great, now I have even more reason to stop tagging friends, like fewer things, tighten my privacy restrictions, and tell friends to stop tagging me or checking me in to places. I have no interest in my personal info being used for their search engine, nor do I want friends of friends (i.e. strangers) to contact me just because I like the same TV show or went to their favorite restaurant.

If you don't want friends of friends seeing stuff, why don't you just set your privacy to friend's only?

You can't control your friends' privacy settings. If they tag you in something and have their own privacy settings wide open, anyone will be able to see it.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by joshuahedlund »

daralthus wrote: post #82
simonsarris wrote: post #53

This is an important step for Facebook and I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it (all ~50 comments so far are about the graph search). The big thing here isn't graph search, or the fancy searching per se. The big thing here is this: > "and meet new people, too." This is huge. Huge! Facebook from the start was envisioned as a sort-of dating platform but that part of it got swept under the rug real quick. Throug…

So the only question is, how would you interact with those newly found people? Would people just message any stranger? I guess thats not the norm now.

> Would people just message any stranger?

If they want to, doesn't it cost $1 now? Maybe that's the whole idea...

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