facebook graph manual: 97 pages manual with clever search phrases

Let’s get personal

WORKING WITH FACEBOOK GRAPH

Greenpeace: the complete deep web

Greenpeace: the complete deep web

Greenpeace: the complete deep web

Greenpeace: the complete deep web

http://readwrite.com/2010/01/09/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov

Zuckerberg about privacy: the social norm changed

New Facebook

Facebook Graph

• combine 10.000+ facts of Facebook users in a way that was never available before. Not officially available outside US. But just change language settings to US English and you’re in.

• allows reporters to find people during breaking news, but also creates leads for investigative journalism

Breaking news

Leads for a story

Sometimes scary

• if you are the one that is investigated :)

http://app.thefacesoffacebook.com

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id=9319302

So what?

• If people reveal they like an event, in this case an event closed for the general public, chances are they are a reporter themselves. Checking out likes of other closed events makes sense: you see what people attended and can ask them what happened

Google vs Facebook

• Facebook isn’t in Google: it has it’s own database

Google:

Facebook:

Test:

• Find at least three people who liked the congress

So what?

• You can’t search for postings yet

• Comments on photos can be valuable to find out what triggers people you research

So what?

• Searching for “photos of vvoj congres 2013” results in photos of that page, not per se photos of the event itself. Searching for “photos by people who like <event>” is an alternative query

Facebook Graph

• search the likes / activities combined with work information

• “Interests from people who are Waiters and were actors”

It has a learning curve

• 10.000+ narrowly defined building blocks allow you to solve complex search problems, but only if you translate your problem into the very specific Graph-language

How do i find

• somebody who is unemployed and worked for the Ministerie van Defensie (Dutch)

UWV = unemployment office

If Graph fails…

it shows you web results

Right syntax

Personal Search

Use the right blocks

Filter out the Fakers

Mind your language

You search in English, but don’t use translations

PHOTO SEARCH

Album

other operators"for picture search

COMPANIES

Some general operators

Combined operators

• how do I find Germans who have a holiday in Amsterdam?

• How do I find same sex couples?

About secret groups

The new “secret groups” won’t reveal anything

But closed groups do

Just click on the name

names of 2103 veterans

170 names of people who work at NATO

72 names of officers

How would you find

• people working at soccer clubs who like online gambling?

So what do you do?

Follow me

• @henkvaness

• www.forreporters.com/searchbistro