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Prankster Shows Off Facebook Graph Search Results

Such as Muslim men living in Tehran interested in men

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Facebook's new Graph Search can do things Google can't. That's what makes it exciting. It's also what makes it a little scary.

London-based Web prankster Tom Scott has hit on the simplest way to drive home that point: A Tumblr blog called "Actual Facebook Graph Searches," which consists of screenshots of actual searches that are now possible on the site (or will be soon, for those who don't have the feature yet).  Some are merely amusing or embarrassing: "Mothers of Catholics from Italy who like Durex," for instance. Some expose apparent hypocrisy, like "People who like Neil Patrick Harris and Focus on the Family." Some are potentially creepy, like the one below: