Facebook Graph Search: What do you think?

I can fully understand one side that claims it's too invasive and gives away private information, yet on the otherhand it cannot collect data that you don't already give to them. While it does harvest and organize data much simpler and quicker than digging through someones data manually, I don't see this being a widely used feature. In fact i don't see much of this data being useful to anyone in the first place. So what if you like to watch "x" and listen to music group "y", chances are if we were friends, I would already know that, if I didn't, I probably dont care and probably wouldn't be looking through your profile.

This tool has its ups and downs. Facebook is ceaselessly innovative and this tool provides yet another way for friends to connect and discover commonalities and shared interests. However, from a privacy perspective this tool can seem invasive. The amount and detail of information Facebook collects about it's users is overwhelming. In some ways Facebook is a window exposing expansive networks of followers to very personal information about an individual. The most troubling thing about this is that once it has been put out there, information released is almost impossible to retract. We're all chained to the information Facebook collects now, likely for the rest of our lives.

 

Facebook Graph Search is a very useful tool introduced by the network. Personally I don't use it very much, but thats just me. I can definitely see how a user would use this tool to their advantage and really increase the experience. As far as a tool for journalists, I believe thats the strongest point of the new feature from Facebook. I also do believe that this feature is extremely creepy because I can really search for anything and get the answer I'm looking for. I do believe that it will become easier to use with time, but as of now I'm not even really sure what to use it for. The capabilities it has just doesn't really involve what I use Facebook for. 

Facebook Graph Search. Immediately after reading this article I clicked over to my Facebook account to test out the new feature. After seeing how the new feature works and what it can do, I truly feel that it will be a great tool for marketing/advertising professionals. The feature makes Facebook easier for searching purposes and provides users with a unique benefit that the site did not have before implementing.  I think the feature will also be great for journalist trying to get comments for a particular subject or article because they have the ability to search their Facebook page for their friends who are interested in that subject and ask them to provide a valuable comment. Therefore, I think this new application is a great idea for Facebook!

I really enjoy Facebook's graph search. It makes finding my friends way easier, and also has become a much more useful tool for doing marketing tasts for work. 

I think using a Facebook graph search will be a definitely great idea to connect friends and build a strong relationships. If people can use this graph search to find a friend who has a same hobby, it will influence Facebook to become world the most popular social media. In my opinion, making a new friends is really great things while people are living. Friends is worth enough as earning a money. In this way, if facebook make this graph search to the public, I am sure it will bring an amazing influence in social media society

I think this tool is good and bad at the same time.  It is awesome that facebook is continually trying to improve.  This new tool will give friends oppurtunities to link up and do things together that they think are fun.  You might now find friends that have things in common with you that you would have never known before. The bad thing about this new tool is that it gets into the privacy of others.  Facebook is already detailing our lives.  Do we need our lives being shown on facebook? That is for you to decide.

I think Graph Search is really cool. It allows me to find something in common with my friends that we have never known. It also can be used for business effectively. I am so impressed by this fun innovation. It seems like facebook never stop developing.  

I personally REALLY like this.  I think since MySpace has came up with a unique search engine that it only makes sense for Facebook to do the same.

Personally, I think that the Facebook Graph Search tools is pretty cool feature. People are able to know what others have common thoughts with you on Facebook. It might be a repulsion for some people; however, companies, researchers, and individuals who are willing to gather some information could use this tool and get the results very easily. Also, as I have this tool, it would be pretty fun to use it as to get some feedbacks; such as, I may be able to know some good shopping place that I have never knwon where other friends go. It seems pretty fun and useful tool to have.

I think that the Facebook Graph Search tool is a really cool and interesting tool.  Although some might find it creepy and complain that someone can search a little too much about someone, most of your friends should be friends or family.  That being the case, it wouldn't matter if they are curious or searching something about you.  If you don't want people knowing something about you, the content should not be up on social media places in the first place and you can choose to block or not be friends with the person on Facebook.  

It will also be a quicker way to search and access material that you are looking for,  for whatever reason it might be.  Instead of spending wasted time scrolling and making meaningless searches, this will help you accomplish things quicker and easier.

The graph search feature that facebook enhanced was such a good idea. It makes it so much easier to search for things. It may be a little creepy but it can be easier to see what you have in common with your friends on facebook. I think my favorite thing about this would be places that my friends have liked. For example if there is a great resturant that a friend went to, I would like to try to go there too. I don't have this feature yet but when I do I'm sure i'll like it.

Let's be honest. What is Facebook used for? I go on for two reasons.

One to justify and rejoice in the activities I do with my friends.We comment on our weekends for a final time and leave it as a living history of my personal legacy. We post famous quotes of what was said and our adventures.

The second reason I use Facebook is to look at what my friends are up to. Everyone is ok with Facebook stalking because eveyone is willing to stalk on Facebook. People post their personal up-to-date ventures because eveyone wants them to know what they're doing and what everyone else is doing.

Facebook users already frantically seek information from other users, Facebook is just now offering a way to make it more efficient for those who do it. My only apprehension is that making it easier for people to look up other people other empowers people who would be deterred to do it because it used to be such a time drain.

Hopefully I don't use this feature too much. I don't ever want to be a creeper

In some cases I could see this being extremely interesting for the right people. If I were going to a concert and trying to figure out who to invite that likes the same artist, this would be very useful! Also its a great way to check out pictures before you go somewhere and ask your friends where they found would be the place sites to see. This is like stalking to the max though, Facebook has become creepier and creepier over the years. At first it was alright but now it has gotten to the point of you know what everyone is doing at every moment. I don't even know if I would ever use this new search but it may come in handy.

I think FB Graph Search is brilliant! I always have the hardest time finding certain pictures or even things that me and my friends & family share in common. Prime example: My cousin visited this frozen yogurt parlor in Royal Oak that she 'Liked' but forgot the name. This Graph Search would immediately solve that problem if I typed in "Places my friends have visited for frozen yogurt". I'm really excited about this tool and all that it has to offer. I look at it as the Google Search of Facebook. It's very refreshing that Facebook is working hard to integrate such a useful tool. Now lets just hope that they don't go and change the layout of the site again. I have a love/hate relationship with the new Timeline layout.

This graph search as I mentioned in an earlier post is not the right move for Facebook (in my eyes). Most of my friends have moved away from facebook and started getting into newer and better social media outlets such as twitter and instagram. Facebook is a company that iwll never tank but the success has slowed down dramatically. I know that there are millions of fake profiles on there with fake information so this graph search can be misleading in many ways.

I think that this graph search is a great new feature. I think that it can help you discover more about the friends you have and find out that you actually have more in common that you believed previously. Those interests that you search are already interests that a person decided to make public and allow others to know. This feature just makes a more efficient way of being able to seek out what your friends like without having to individually look at every single one of your friend's likes. I agree that it could be a great tool for journalists and for reporters to find photos. I do not think that it is that creepy because those people chose to publicky display that specific information. 

The Graph Search is great to me.  It finds some commonality between you and your friends.  I've had to many conversations that have started with "oh man no way you've been to there too, I was there blah blah..." and it goes from there.  I think another opportunity to be connected is really something interesting to think about but I think there's a lot that'll hold it back to.  Not everyone has to check in wherever they are so only the people who are really into it are going to be using it.  Also I'm sure it's creepy to large demographic of people.  It might be too much honestly.  For me, it's interesting, I'll use it on occasion but it'll be no big deal in the long run.  

Judging from this information, I think it is a good idea. It's kind of like being able to Google search through your friends' facebook profiles. It could be useful, for example, if someone wanted to go to a concert but couldn't think of any friends who liked that band. Now they could search through their friends and see if they could find someone who may want to go with them. Is it creepy? Yeah, a little bit, but so is facebook in general. The whole idea of facebook is keeping up with the lives of your friends, and this is just another way to learn about common interests you have with your friends that you maybe weren't aware of. 

Facebook's new Graph Search makes perfect sense to me. Facebook users constantly "like" pages, and therefore tell specifically of their interests. This new graph feature is a reminder that when you participate in something online, there will always be a trace as to what you did. By "liking" something, you're telling Facebook and your friends that you have an interest, no matter how trivial. I wonder if this new search opportunity will make people think twice before liking a certain page. I never really thought my likes would add up to anything, but apparently everyone I'm friends with on Facebook can now know every single page I've liked since the beginning of my account. Kind of creepy, indeed. But I do think humor will come out of this new feature. See this Tumblr blog post for a few examples. 

With what small amount of knowledge I have so far about this I am pretty torn about weather or not I like it. On one hand, I see how practical this tool is and could see myself using it frequently. Now a days, everyone have a million facebook friends, when I joined my sorority I got a friend request from my entire chapter plus other chapters and alumna. I don't know half of them and this search tool would be a great way to find friends with common interests and convert them into “real life” friends. Then again, I don't think the world needs yet another handy tool to creep, stalk, bug, and advertise too.

I have to say, as cool as this idea is, I find it rather creepy especially with the new obsession with "catfishing" on the Internet. Although Facebook is trying to communicate that this feature is able to understand users by being able to answer questions, it still is not human. As obvious as me saying that is, I just think this is another step towards face-to-face communication becoming a dying process. Instead of asking Facebook friends what music they like (for example) and getting to know them on a more personal level, we have cut this step out by just going ahead and asking a robot to find out this information for us. So next time you see this person out and they are talking about their favorite artist, you have to pretend like you don't already know the answer....creepy. On top of this, a lot of Facebook users don't sit around liking pages all the time. At least I know I do not. So I find it difficult to believe that there is much accuracy behind this search tool.

This new Facebook feature reminds me the Siri of iPhone. Technologies become more and more human friendly. Users only have to follow their intuitions to say, to search without processing complicated data in their minds.

This Graph Search provides people a new way to connect with their friends on Facebook. People can find the common points between his/her friends. For businesses, this common point could be an opportunity to open a new market. 

Anyway, I am personally looking forward to this new feature a lot. And hoping to see how businesses adopt it more. 

The new Facebook graph search is a unique, innovative and fun idea. I think it will help Facebook to keep or increase their users’ Facebook using frequency for a while. At the same time, just as other new technologies, people will get tried of it fast. Thus, it is very important to figure out a way to keep people’s interest of this new feature.

I finally moved from waiting list to user list for the Google Graphic. I was so excited, but when I tried this morning, I searched "my friend who went to New York", and it showed all the friends who have been to New York. Then I searched "my friends who are men interested in men", I got my boyfriend popped out!!!That's crazy!!!

I guess I will have to judge whether I like it or not after it comes out, but I think it sounds interesting.  I have heard of Google starting something for you can search something by just posting an image to search what you want, for example if you wanted to find staplers, you would put a picture of a stapler in the "Search bar".  I think this kind of technology is on the rise, and it's a good thing.

I have a slight problem with Facebook's new Graph Search because while there are privacy settings that allow you to minimize the information shared with others, you cannot completely opt out of the new feature. I do, however, think for those who are interested, it could be a great, user-friendly resource. But now more than ever, people cherish their privacy online, which means something like this might cause people to take themselves off Facebook permanently. I think this is a very divisive feature for Facebook to add, and I look forward to seeing a reaction when it's officially unveiled on the site. No matter what, I do respect Facebook for constantly trying to change and adapt to keep up with social media site competitors.

I think the Facebook Graph Search is a cool innovation. As an optimized search engine tool, it definitely provides opportunities for users to learn more about their friends, and the friendship circle on Facebook will become smaller and more connected. For privacy problems, Facebook may consider giving a chance for users to manage their privacy on settings. For example, they can choose their information only can be found by their friends, instead of strangers. They can also choose their information are not open to the Graph Search users, or which part of information can be open.

Like all facebook changes i think many people will be upset about the Graph Search. Personally, i don't think i will enjoy it. Like you Ross i do not have access to it yet. A lot of the things i "liked" where done so because of a special promotion or assignment, not actually because i was truly interested in a page. In addition, i have not reviewed the things i said i liked or were my interest since i created my facebook a long time ago, i'm sure my tastes have changed since then. It's scary for me to think that if an employer did look at my facebook page and i had liked something they were not fond of that could influence their opinion of me.

I fell that the Facebook graph search is definitely an interesting new concept in and effort to keep the site new and unique. Unfortunately like many others have said there could be an issue with privacy invasion. I guess facebook could counter this search with a security tool that allows this information to remain private and not show up in search results if not approved by the user. At the same time I think it is a quick and efficient tool especially for companies to monitor who is following their page.

I agree with the notion that adding the graph feature to facebook is kind of creepy and an invasion of privacy. WHile it is innovative and like nothing I have ever seen before, I think that many people may be offended and or turned off by such a feature. Despite this, I think that people will still continue to use facebook as it has become a large part of every day life all over the world.

I think that Facebook Graph search is mostly positive. I like that it will allow users to more efficiently search content and get answers. In particular, I can see how it would be a great tool for journalists. They would be able to search specific key words to get insights/developments on a story. Graph search seems fun to use, especially for sharing music and movie interests. Overall, I like the idea of this feature. One concern that I have is privacy. Hopefully Facebook will allow users to customize how and what content can be searched from their profile. The tricky thing is that everyone wants access to information, but they're reluctant to share their own. It will be interesting to see how it develops.

After reading numerous articles about Facebook Graph Search the past two weeks, I feel that although it is an amazing innovation for their network, it may not be the best thing for their company. I say this becasue being a member of the Gen Y era, we are the most promintent users of the internet, social media especially. I feel that Facebook is already having a difficult time keeping it's fanbase as us younger folk are starting to move away from Facebook and are being more interested in other social media sites that aren't as invasive and more easy to control the privacy. If it weren't for school activites, I would already have deleted my Facebook due to privacy issues and I truly feel that Graph Search is allowing anyone in your friend-base etc. to entire your world in such detail that I'm sure half of us don't even know the data exsists. I personally will not be particiapting in Graph Search other than class research and feel it is way too intimate of knowledge for someone or anyone to know and have access to about another.

I think the new graph search for facebook, is an innovative idea. The search is user friendly and is an added bonus to Facebook. Facebook is stepping into Google's turf and making sure a user does not have to leave the social media site to search information. 

I have mixed feelings as well. I feel Facebook is already personal enough. What with liked pages and birthdays and pictures as well as personal information available, it's amazing that they are finding even more ways to narrow down searches to find people. It seems like Facebook is just trying to find new things to show its users. I've heard several rumors about how Facebook is slowing down and is turning into the new MySpace. With negative rumors like this, it is no wonder they are trying to make it more interactive and new. But where will these new features end? It seems like it is going to just keep going until people get sick of these new changes and updates, which I believe they already are.

I think the Graph Search feature is an interesting new way to browse through Facebook, and it sounds like it has some good and bad aspects to it.

It seems like you can really be creative in your searches as opposed to before, and in a way it's almost like Facebook search is being "Google-ized". After all, you can search almost anything on Google and come up with an answer. This just personalizes it amongst your friends, or anyone who is willing to share such information.

But it also make me wonder.....is this going to be a privacy issue too. Will people be able to search you by what you like, who you know, what you have "liked", what you've posted about, etc. I certainly hoppe it stays withing the scope of Facebook's current privacy settings. I'm also wondering what kind of bugs might have to be worked out of the system as it goes along too. It just sounds like a lot of things to tie in to a so-called smart search feature.

I think that this feature seems pretty cool.  I definitely agree that Facebook needs to be constantly changing to try and stay as innovative as possible.  I agree with what Ross said about how it only uses information that is already available to your friends, but now it will be organized for people to see it more clearly.  If these people were actually your friends (and realistically people that you would be doing these things with), you would probably already know most of their interests (ex, who likes to ski or who likes to dance).  It could be a cool feature though when trying to find some new bands/ songs to listen to or some new books to read that your friends have raved about.  I don't think this is nearly as creepy as the "see friendship" option or even the timeline where you can easily skip back years ago.  

I also have mix feelings about this. The whole idea seems to be harmless because you can search up which friends of yours have the same interests on facebook. But, this does step close to the line of going over customer privacy. This will result in an uncomfortable feeling for some individuals so Facebook should also make it optional if users want their names and profiles to turn up in these graph search features. 

I think that Facebook is constantly trying to reinvent itself so it won't go out of style (or, as some people like to say, "become the new MySpace"). Is the feature cool? Sure. I guess. I don't really think that it has a whole lot to do with the average Facebook user. I mean how many college kids are actually going to use it? I personally think it will get a lot more use from marketing teams, as a way to target specific users. In the long run, I think Facebook really has become the place for advertisers to try and hit their consumers with as much content as possible. As far as users are concerned, I wonder if maybe this will drive people away? At the very least, people will complain about the new feature for awhile. Or, at least, until the next one comes along. 

I'm not a fan of it. Graph Search is just another way for people to see how much of their information is being freely seen and most likely used by Facebook and its users. Using it once shows me how litle many users know about their security and what information is on display for the world to see. Sure, it's a convenient way to learn more obscure things about your friends, but to me, it's more of a way for Facebook to keep pushing the limits with all the information it has about its users.

Facebook users are lax about their security preferences so this Facebook Graph Search will only help people connect with their friends as well as connecting with possible friends. However it seems that Facebook keeps on testing the limits of how much their users information can be used by third party sources. This might be the start of Facebook becoming accountable for abusing its entitlement toward its users livelihoods or a continued trend of disrespect toward its clientel.

I have mixed feelings about this. It's great to get to know things about people by just typing in a few words, but whatever happened to getting to know people by hanging out with &/or asking them what they like. I personally dont want people to know things about me like how I like Adele because they searched it on Facebook. I want them to know that about me because I've had conversations with them about it or whenever they come around me the hear me humming 'Someone Like You.' Call me old school, but get to know me using primary pesearch... not secondary.

I think that the graph search feature is a very good idea but only if you're trying to get to know someone or learn more about a person that you just met.  I usually learn about a person's interests by speaking in person rather than "creeping" on their Facebook profile.  The idea is cool but seems almost as lazy as texting rather than speaking on the phone.  Graph searching could be useful if you wanted to know the best place to go out on a college campus but I doubt that it would be used for such searches.  That being said, I feel like this is a very useful tool for companies and organizations.  They can use a simple search to find people supportive of their own company thus creating a larger following.  They can use the feature to send out promotions and reward loyal customers.  It would be wise of Facebook to allow a privacy feature so that people can be blocked from such searches.  This way, people do not feel as though their privacy has been compromised.

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I think that Facebook graph search is a good idea in the sence that everybody can search for groups with certain interests. I am not sure hwo others would react to it as recently there has been many various changes that Facebook has had which may have caused some confusion to some. I don't have this feature yet but I think at personal level that it would be interesting and would not afftect my facebook experience. However, looking at how they gather the data through the amount of likes is interesting as personaly I have never been one to like display likes to certain things even if I like them. I can't be the only one so it makes me wonder how accurate their data is.

I think searches like this has a lot of benefits to it as long as the recorded date that make up the graphs are all accurate. I have heard some of my friends on Facebook say that they see certain 'Likes' on their page that they never 'Liked' or never even heard of. In instances like that where the statistics are inacurate, but reported on and used for studies, it could have further negative impacts wherever those studies are used. On the more optimistic side though, this is great to give a general idea to people regarding topics they may be interested in and can look to for things like customer reviews. Facebook users are so incredibly diverse that you can be sure to gather information from all different types of demographics and not just specific groups of people. 

I don't have access to the graph search feature yet but I do think it's a great idea for sorting through interests. Its a faster way to search who on your friend's list likes the same things as you as opposed to reading it on their profile (because not too many people seem to read profiles as much as they used too in my opinion). Example, if you're searching for all your friends that like a specific kind of food or tv show then this is a great feature that saves you the time of checking everyone's profiles. I tend to get very annoyed with facebook updates, as it always seems to be adding and changing things without giving you enough time to adjust. But I've come to learn that's just the way social media is and we can either choose to adapt or move on to something else. Overall, I think this is worth learning and using.

 

 

 

I think Facebook’s Graph Search is interesting. Advertisers and journalists alike could definitely use this feature to their advantage. Depending on whether or not it would cost to use this feature would be a great alternative to purchasing database lists. Facebook users may not like the thought of businesses having that amount of access to their information. Although everything that users “like” on facebook is public, the notion of unknown companies being able to contact them without their consent can be unsettling.

My take on this development is that I think Facebook is trying to do too much. While that might sound like a weird thing to criticize a company like Facebook for I think that they should stick with what they know and what they're good at. I'm sure Facebook wants to try to exploit any and everything the internet is capable of at some point but I just dont see how adding a search feature like this will help them. Yes its a cool feature I guess, but Facebook is not a seach engine and shouldnt try to be one. Facebook is the king of social media (for now) and i'd like to see them stick to their guns and let Google and the other search engines do their own thing. The internet is big enough to allow everyone to coexist, and Facebook should shouldnt be trying to win the entire internet. 

Oooooh Facebook and their graph search. This is a complicated topic for me. My biggest issue is when people think this is a game changer for Facebook and they're going to disrupt Google's searches. This may be a powerful tool for you, me, and anyone reading this, but that's because we're not the typical Facebook user. For instance, my Mother would have no idea how to use this or how a search like this could benefit her, let alone the idea that something like this even exists. This may change the idea of social searching, but yet, I don't think it brings us anything we don't already have. If you want to know if your friends like Jay Z, you can go to Jay Z's page and see that already, or, you could go to your friend's page and see if they like him.

Another issue, though, is for those who find this creepy. As mentioned, it provides no new information other than the information you've already given Facebook. If you're naive enough to think Facebook won't use every bit of information you give it to its full potential, I don't think that you should be in the position of being on Facebook to begin with. But that's just my opinion.