Several months ago, you could see your network's statistics (% male/female, top interests, etc.) by clicking the "Network Statistics" link while browsing your network. The URL looked like this:
http://www.facebook.com/networks/16777927/Harding/
where the number is the network ID assigned by Facebook and Harding is the network's name. When I try to access this URL now, I am redirected to
http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?networks
which only allows me to view the networks I'm a part of or join a new one (pictured below).
The interesting thing is that when I searched Google for links to network statistics pages, they apparently have hundreds of them indexed and cached as shown below. But when you click on any of the links, you are routed back to the screen above, and when you click on a cached link, you are told your search "did not match any documents".
It doesn't look like the Internet Archive has any of these pages archived.
So is anyone else able to view their Facebook network statistics? And what would be their motivation for hiding this information?
Update later today:
Somehow I missed it... last May Facebook placed an announcement on all network pages:
Network Pages will be discontinued soonI was able to view a number of cached network pages with Live Search. Although they didn't have Harding's page cached, they had a number of pages from various US cities. Below is a snapshot of Washington DC's page from 10/14/2008 which includes the warning:
Once Live attempts to re-crawl this page, it will disappear into the bit bucket in the sky. All the user comments will also disappear.
It's really a shame Facebook got rid of these pages as they provided an interesting summary of each network.
Did you ever solve this? I just googled the same thing and your blog came up.
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned in the update, Facebook has discontinued their Network Pages. It's really quite a loss.
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ReplyDeleteVery interesting! The reason I'm looking for it (and came across our notes via google) is that I want to use it in determining the viability of some application I'm planning.
I guess they must think it has some potential for commercialization. Have you come across any alternative means of access in th mean time?
I'm wondering if Facebook wants to hide the fact that usership is lower then they'd hoped. I used to belong to a network for my city, but now I'm told that I belong to no networks.
ReplyDeleteJust noticed this now.. Yeah I'm ticked too!!!
ReplyDeleteMan, just went to compare colleges by real facts like network statistics on facebook and its gone! What a bust, facebook sucks the last 2 years...
ReplyDeleteReading your blog a couple years too late because I was trying to figure out if this network info was still available. I remember wasting time on it in college and now that I work for a college I was hoping to get insight as to what shows are most popular with the students... oh well... thanks for helping know I should stop looking for the answer!
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