Facebook Graph Search Commands – The Big List
Graph Search is powerful, easy to master and incredibly useful. Here are a collection of search queries that will give you a good idea of what you can do with Graph Search on Facebook.
1. Track your Facebook Activity
- My favorite pages
- My favorite music
- Books I like
- Photos I have liked
- Photos I have like that are recent
- Places visited by me
- Places nearby I visited
- Games I like
2. View photos of friends, or even strangers
- Photos of my friends
- Photos of my friends of friends taken in [Place]
- Photos of people named [Name]
- Photos of (or uploaded by) [Name]
- Photos of [Name] in (or before or after) [Year]
- Photos commented on by [Name]
- Photos liked by [Name]
- Photos of [Person A] liked by [Person B]
- Photos of [Person A] AND [Person B]
3. Find new places to eat, visit.
- Restaurants nearby liked by my friends
- [Cuisine] Restaurants liked by my friends of friends in [City]
- Hotels nearby liked by my friends of friends
- Friends who live (or have lived) in [Place]
- Recent photos taken in [Place]
- Places in [City] visited by people who live nearby
4. Discover things you may like.
- Music (or Games or Movies) I may like
- Books liked by people who like [Author Name]
- Favorite Books (or Movies or TV Shows or Restaurants) of my friends
- Movies liked by people who have interests similar to me
- Musicians liked by people who listened to [Band Name]
- Apps used by my friends
- Apps people who live nearby use
5. What’s happening around you?
- Events nearby
- Local events this weekend
- Events near [Place] today
- Events attended by my friends that are tomorrow
6. Know your followers.
- People who follow me
- People who follow me and like [Page Name]
- People who follow me and live in [City]
- People who follow me and work at [Company]
- People who follow me and were born in [Year]
- Friends of friends who follow me
7. Grow your network
- People I may know
- People who live nearby and like [Interest Topic]
- People who have seen [Movie]
- People who have read [Book]
- People who speak [Language]
- People with similar interests to my friends
- People who work at [Company] in [Year]
- People who are not my friends and went to work at [Company] in [Year]
- People who are friends of my friends
- People who graduated from [College Name] in [Year]
- People who studied [Subject] at [College] in [Year]
- People who are not my friends and went to [School] in [Year]
8. Find someone on Facebook.
- People who work nearby
- People who are [Profession Name] (like Doctors, Programmers, etc.)
- People who live in [Place]
- People who are named [Full or Partial Name]
- People who are [Gender] and live in [City] and [Relationship Status]
- People who believe in [Religion Name]
- People who are N years old
- People who are older than X and younger than Y years
- People who were born in [Year]
- People who work at [Company A] and previously worked at [Company B]
The permutations and combinations are endless.