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What are some good Facebook Graph search queries?

26th August 2013

My answer to What are some good Facebook Graph search queries? on Quora

Employment related ones can be interesting: “friends of my friends who have worked for Google” for example.

You can even run these against everyone: “people who used to work for Yahoo! and now work for Google”

Posted 26th August 2013 at 6:11 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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