It's still subject to privacy controls, but Graph Search's new reach is deep.
Facebook Graph Search now includes posts and status updates in its results, according to a Facebook blog post Monday. Such searches will accept modifiers like time—“All of my posts from 2012” for instance—location, or people who participated.
This new aspect of Graph Search will take advantage of Facebook’s recently announced hashtags. One intended purpose is for users to search posts among different social groups for topic matter, e.g., “posts about Breaking Bad by my friends.” Graph Search will also allow searches based on tagged locations (“Posts from the Empire State Building”) or involvement of other users (“Posts my friend John Smith has commented on”).
The search is still subject to privacy controls, so users won’t be able to see results they couldn’t view otherwise. But this opens up all public posts ever, as well as any posted shared directly to each user, to aggregation, and it’s worth noting that Facebook updates are set to be public by default. Ostensibly, Facebook hopes that this will create a Twitter-like feed of activity that users can view and interact with.
Like the OG Graph Search before it, new Graph Search seems prone to surfacing connections and trends we may not ever want to acknowledge. Facebook states that the feature will roll out slowly to a small number of users who already have Graph Search. If there’s anything out and about in your timeline that you might not want to be search-ready, time to toggle some privacy settings.
Courtesy: arstechnica
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