Facebook Graph Search

This sounds like it might be cool if I understood it.

CNET wrote:

Want to find photos from your graduation? Done. Want to find out which of your friends went to Harvard and graduated with biology degrees? Done. Decided to unfriend anybody who supports the NRA? You can do that, too.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57564200-276/zuckerbergs-vision-realized-one-graph-to-rule-them-all/

I've never understood the appeal of Facebook itself, never mind a new search engine for it.

I'm trying to post a new topic, but it isn't happening.

Lisa wrote:

I'm trying to post a new topic, but it isn't happening.

What's it doing? Do you have the new topic button? If so what happens when you press it?

Just tried again.
Here's what I get:

New members are not allowed to post external links or emails for 7 days. Please contact the forum administrator for more information.

Lisa wrote:

Just tried again.
Here's what I get:

New members are not allowed to post external links or emails for 7 days. Please contact the forum administrator for more information.

Ok, I believe I have fixed that. I had done that intentionally with an eye towards spam reduction, but that won't be an issue for a bit and right now we are all new members so I might as well turn it off.

_Howard wrote:

I've never understood the appeal of Facebook itself, never mind a new search engine for it.

You know, I do get annoyed with it, but it is an excellent way to keep in touch with people for someone like me who is not a phone person. I have friends scattered from Tassie where Clancy is to Colorado to California. I can see how it would add up in postage and phone calls to do what we do on Facebook for 'free'. Let's face it, in a way those ads and things that annoy me are the price I pay. But I kind of have more patience for ads than I have money, so I'm grateful for the major annoyance that it is. But that's what it is, a love hate relationship with something I'd get rid of if I had a choice.