Use Facebook Graphs to know Everything about Anything

If you are a geeky nerd, you would probably know that the whole of facebook was built with the social graph at its core. What most people don’t know is that Facebook provides a simple API (application programming interface) that provides public data about any Facebook profile, page, note, wall feed, photos, video and everything on Facebook – to applications.

But however, you can use this graph to extract as much public and general information as possible from a Facebook profile or from a facebook page, without as much as even visiting the Facebook profile or page.

This is such a simple method that it doesn’t even qualify to be called a hack. First of all, you would have to get the username or the profile ID of a facebook profile. Then, just replace the www with the word graph in Facebook.

For example, if a facebook username is http://www.facebook.com/AbhilashRejanair then the graph of the same user would be http://graph.facebook.com/AbhilashRejanair
This hack even works for profiles which has profile ID’s instead of usernames. Just replace the username (blue text) with the profile ID, like  

http://graph.facebook.com/12345678912 

This graph works best with pages. If you would quickly like to know when a company was founded in its Facebook page, just go to the graph version of the page. ex: http://graph.facebook.com/TechCovered. This proceeds directly to the graph version of the page.