The stuff you can find on this is incredible (literally). Friend is in the beta, we've been testing it out recently.
Examples:
For the Stalker:
Single women that like gym near my city? Shows the gym and the names and profiles of all the women, no opt out.
For the statistical dater:
Bar/Restaurant liked by most single women.
The opportunist:
Female friends of mine that are single or "its complicated"
The sinister:
Refine search by age.
There's no opt out. You will be found. Sleep well.
(the finding women theme is aimed at the target audience, dont read too much into it).
glad I'm not on stalkbook
Guarantee I'll never use that thing. And I'm not worried because I don't put my life on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/etc.
And your examples are plausible because it's almost literally just women and teenagers that think the Internet is private.
https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch/privacy Thank god.
One more reason not to get on Facebook. Won't their users ever start leaving? Even pre-graph search, the privacy issues were huge. Does our generation just not care? I would argue that maybe people think they can be safe if they manage their privacy settings, but I see tons of open profiles.
I really am still amazed by that company's market cap. I have to wonder how many of their users actually use the site as more than just a chat client.
The only way I can see people leaving facebook en masse is if there's a replacement. If a new site starts up and happens to become cool then yes. Also if the advertising becomes more aggressive.
On a possibly completely unrelated note, facebook lost 1.4 million active users in the United States in early December.
when is this coming out for real?
You guys have to check this out if you want a (fairly disquieting) laugh. Pretty scary what you can do with Graph Search:
http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/
Scroll down to get to the screenshots.
My personal favorite: Family members of people who live in CHINA and like FALUN GONG. Scary.
Holy shit.
LinkedIn, cell phone, email. That's all I need.
i am sensing lots of unlike activities storming up
Who cares honestly, nothing on my profile that bothers me and I am not a girl so not worried about someone trying to figure out where I work out or eat
So much fear and focus on the negative, every technology has abuses and over time adapts to fix those problems. Why no examples of the positive? You all just want to join the dark-side so badly.
Facebook has already scared everybody out of 'liking' things. Anything you like will be plastered on all of your friends' news feeds, and nobody wants to air their laundry out there. Wait.......that's actually what 99% of users do
Creator of that site seems overly proud of himself. Not going back there again; doesn't deserve the benefit my or other people's traffic.
just saw this post this morning on lifehacker.com. Might help any paranoid FB users out there in the short term.
http://lifehacker.com/5978872/facewash-makes-sure-your-facebook-profile…
I see this being a pretty big issues in countries where the risk of extorsion and kidnapping is high.
If I'm a kidnapper/extorsioner with a list of people who are potential targets, Facebook is essentially doing the bulk of my leg work.
In the case of the bulk of the audience of WSO, I guess the main concerns of this new feature is identity theft and stalking. Can't really think of anything else.
My female friend actually tried "Single males who work at [insert top-tier company name here] in [insert top-tier city name here]" on graph search.
We were giggling over the pictures. I swear it's better than Match.com =)))
just added worked at Goldman Sachs, Greenpeace as places to work, liked romantic walks, talking about utter bollocks and boxing to my profile. Chicks dig the ethical rich guy in great shape with feelings.
You're an inspiration.
LOL you go get the bitches!
That's actually a hilariously great idea. How long before people start gaming the system for jobs and women by planting bullshit on their profile? Zuckerberg thwarted.
i stopped using the full version because of graph search, if they force mobile users to comply I am out. way to fk up FB.
I just got access to it. muahaha.
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