How to search for information on Facebook
First of all, consider the Graph Search search engine. This is a fairly powerful tool in which the search is carried out using special commands in the form of questions in English.
Facebook search is more suitable for personal purposes like searching for people by interests, restaurants, old photos, videos you liked, etc. However, with the correct formulation of questions and commands, you can quickly check and find the information you are looking for for other purposes.
Before you start searching, you should know:
1. The Graph Search search engine only works with the English version of the Facebook interface (the system is under development and does not work with other languages).
2. You can search only by months or years, not by specific dates. That is, for example, it will not be possible to find photos for August 24, 2015.
3.Graph Search is case insensitive, so all words in a search phrase can be entered in lower case.
4. Facebook users can hide their posts from the search engine. More details about privacy - .
5.At the beginning of the search, results are always shown related to those with whom you have the most contact, that is, your friends. Next - with friends of your friends (mutual friends), in the end - everyone else.
6.Search results can be sorted by many options.
Video/photo search
For video search operator is used videos, then you need to type taken in/taken at/of/at, after that - indicate the location / subject, at the end (optionally) - the time frame. Examples:
Photo search occurs in a similar way, but the operator is used photos.
Particular attention should be paid to the correct definition of the location, because users can designate the same area in different ways. Requests photos taken at Maidan Nezalezhnosti from january 2014 And photos taken at Kiev, Maidan from january 2014 will show different results.
If you don't know how to spell a geographic feature, you can use the Facebook hint. To do this, go to your page and click on the Check in button in the field for creating a post. After you start entering the name, Facebook will offer ready-made options.
People search
On Facebook, you can also quite easily search for people by place of work, education, profession, interests, place of residence, etc. There are three main search filters for people:
- (my) friends− friends
- my non-friends/people who are not my friends- everyone except friends
- people− all
- People who graduated from university of cambridge in 2000 and live in Ukraine− people who graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and live in Ukraine.
- people who graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and work at Verkhovna Rada− people who work in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
- people who graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and older than 60− elderly graduates of this university.
- people who was born in Russia and graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv− people who were born in the Russian Federation and studied at Kiev University.