Facebook brings Graph Search functionality to US members
Social networking leviathan Facebook has revealed its latest feature update, introduction of its Graph Search functionality to US users.
The new tool will make its presence felt by way of a larger search bar at the top of the page, from which people can search for friends and Pages by name, or for specific people, photos, places and interests.
Search terminology can take the form of simple phrases such as ‘People from my hometown’. ‘Photos of my family’ and ‘Hotels in Seattle visited by my friends’.
The conversational level tool also allows people to search for more esoteric activities such as ‘Movies my friends like,’ ‘Books my friends of friends have read,’ and ‘Music liked by people who like the music that I like’.
In a blog post Facebook said: “As a reminder, we introduced new privacy controls back in December and announced that we would be retiring the old ‘who can look up my timeline by name?’ setting in the coming months. Now that people have had an opportunity to explore those tools, we are starting to retire this setting for the small percentage of people that use it.
“As we continue to work on other improvements to Graph Search, such as searching for posts, comments and mobile, we encourage everyone to use your privacy shortcuts and Activity Log to review and adjust whom you have shared with, including status updates.”