Which Of My Friends Has The Most Friends?
August 19, 2010 11:05 AM Subscribe
Is there a way to see which of my Facebook friends has the most friends?
In my Google searches, all I can find are apps that display the most mutual friends, or questions about who has the most friends in all of Facebook. I want to know which of MY FRIENDS has the MOST FRIENDS.
In my Google searches, all I can find are apps that display the most mutual friends, or questions about who has the most friends in all of Facebook. I want to know which of MY FRIENDS has the MOST FRIENDS.
If you have any friends who play Mafia Wars/Farmville/games of a similar ilk, it'll probably be them. Serious social games players join groups, the main purpose of which is friending complete strangers who also play the game, because it increases your score in various ways. I recently stopped playing Mafia Wars, and deleted a whole crapload of "friends".
posted by booksherpa at 1:50 PM on August 19, 2010
posted by booksherpa at 1:50 PM on August 19, 2010
Best answer: (FB developer here)
No, or at least not without a lot of hoops to jump through. Authorizing an app on FB allows you to see the social graph (friends) of the current user, or any users who have additionally authorized offline access. You'd have to have all of your friends authorize a single app to even attempt the kind of query you want.
posted by mkultra at 2:02 PM on August 19, 2010
No, or at least not without a lot of hoops to jump through. Authorizing an app on FB allows you to see the social graph (friends) of the current user, or any users who have additionally authorized offline access. You'd have to have all of your friends authorize a single app to even attempt the kind of query you want.
posted by mkultra at 2:02 PM on August 19, 2010
I'm not doubting you mukultra but it seems counter-intuitive that you could find this information if you manually clicked through to every one of your friend's profiles and noted their total number of friends but there's no way to automate the scraping of this information by giving an app access to your own profile alone.
posted by Jaybo at 9:21 AM on October 3, 2010
posted by Jaybo at 9:21 AM on October 3, 2010
"Manual" is the key word here. FB doesn't want to provide any kind of automated way to gather this information, from a security standpoint. When you "authorize" an app, you're giving it access to your info, not your friends'. You're also allowing a third-party application to access this information behind the scenes, and store it on their servers.
posted by mkultra at 9:53 AM on October 5, 2010
posted by mkultra at 9:53 AM on October 5, 2010
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It's not a very popular app, contrary to what you'd expect. And the whole thing looks very ramshackle. So I'm suspicious of it. Most of the reviewers give it one star, but people's complaints seem to be about the map feature; they don't mention whether the "which or your friends has the most friends" thing works. I haven't tried it -- use at your own risk!
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:31 PM on August 19, 2010