Many people joke about Facebook being the NSA’s (National Security Administration’s) best spy tool, because Facebook receives a wealth of information the people willingly give Facebook voluntarily and others also give Facebook information voluntarily.
Throughout the years Facebook has been plagued with privacy scandals and you would think that people would stop using Facebook after the first or second privacy scandal made national headlines news but surprisingly people still continue to use Facebook and provide Facebook with a wealth of information.
With Facebook receiving a wealth of information besides the NSA wanting to use the information Facebook receive in order to try Look for a person of interest or a wanted suspect, can the general public which are also include private eyes a.k.a. private investigators use the information that is on Facebook to find someone?
We all hear the saying “don’t fix something if it isn’t broken” but Facebook doesn’t really go by that saying because they will create something and it will go live for a while then all the sudden with or without really a valid reason they will terminate what they created.
A good example was something that Facebook created called “Graph Search”, graph search you could do a really in-depth detailed search based on what information is made public only, unfortunately this feature is no longer available on Facebook. Facebook did not really issue a clear reason onto why they removed graph search.
So what did Graph Search actually do on Facebook? Graph search on Facebook would allow you to do an in-depth search with detailed information such as this example “Justin works at Lowe’s” or “Justin works at Lowe’s in Virginia”, what this allowed you to do is just search for anyone who works at Lowe’s home improvement who is named Justin and that they are in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I just searched terms you could have done more “Pam who likes pizza and Hancock Fabrics” and this was search for anyone who is named Pam who likes pizza and Hancock fabrics.
Unfortunately Facebook remove this feature by removing their graph search although if you typed in Justin who works at Lowe’s in the search box it was still bring you up the search results as if the graph search we’re still working unfortunately Facebook made some changes to wear this really doesn’t work anymore.
Even though Facebook doesn’t allow you really to search like you did before here are a few tips on how you can search for someone who may work at least around your area.
Like many of us we have friends on Facebook, some friends have over 2,000 friends while some of us only have a few friends, first start with your friends who have the most friends and look through their list if you see a person that works at a particular company click on their name, then look for the tab that says “work”, this will display anyone who works at the same company as they do although this may not be exactly accurate.
Look through your friends who have the most friends and click on current city assuming that they live in the same city as you do or click on hometown assuming that is the same city that you live in and it will bring up friends who only live in the same city. This may or may not be accurate.
some friends may have their friends list disable so if that is the case try another friend that you have where is a lot of friends.
While Facebook has done away with the graph search what’s the while you can get lucky and the search term may work for example Lowes employees Virginia may bring up some people who work at Lowe’s home-improvement in the Commonwealth at Virginia, if you find one employee they may be friends with other people who work at the same Company and even at the same store.