Just to clarify. I don't have an app. I don't have anyone's permission to do anything. I'm just messing around with URL's in their search API: <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api" rel="nofollow">http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api</a><p>This is also what prompted my to try and start a discussion about privacy over here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341227" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341227</a><p>From the search api docs:<p><i>You can search over all public objects in the social graph with <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search</a>. The format is:<p><a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TYPE" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TY...</a>
We support search for the following types of objects:<p>All public posts: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post</a>
People: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user</a>
Pages: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=platform&type=page" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=platform&type=page</a>
Events: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=conference&type=event" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=conference&type=even...</a>
Groups: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=group" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=gro...</a>
You can also search an individual user's News Feed, restricted to that user's friends, by adding a q argument to the home connection URL:<p>News Feed: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?q=facebook" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?q=facebook</a> </i>
The correct question is "Why is the default wall post set to 'Everyone'?"<p>Searching public posts is just fine. I just think that people should be more made aware of who exactly they're broadcasting to.
Samre reason Twitter lets you do this:<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=rectal%20surgery" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#search?q=rectal%20surgery</a><p>(there is a difference, I guess, in that on Twitter it is "common knowledge" that everything is public by default - whereas on Facebook it is reasonable for an individual to realise how public their data might be on their current privacy settings)
I thought this was a rather humorous thing to search on: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=facebook%20privacy" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=facebook%20privacy</a><p>Mainly people warning about the privacy changes, yet have public status updates.
Why in the world would you post about your rectal surgery on the internet using your real name or an easily traceable identity if you did not want the internet to know about it. Missing privacy education maybe?
These people must have their privacy set to 'Everyone'.<p>Facebook's Privacy Guide states that such information may be visible to everyone on the internet.
Link that doesn't expire: <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=rectal%20surgery&type=post" rel="nofollow">https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=rectal%20surgery&typ...</a>
This is...undesirable. People don't really understand privacy on the Internet very well to begin with, it isn't that they don't care about it. Facebook had the opportunity to set an example for how to handle privacy but they f'ed it up because they want to be more like Twitter. This is not the way to do it guys.
It used to be that your posts were set to private.<p>So of course everyone still assumes that when they post about their rectal surgery it's a private matter only their friends can see.<p>This is why changing your privacy policies and defaults is obnoxious.
Wait, these are the messages that are sent between two users? Does just one of them need to put their settings on "Everyone" to display both sides of the conversation?<p>Please tell me this is a bug/hack/exploit/mistake/error.
I would find this way more interesting if I could narrow this down to just people in my network. Knowing what everyone on the internet is doing is not all that interesting.