My Social Graph is Broken So I Have No Idea Who My Friends Are (opens in new tab)

In 2010, Facebook launched Places. It was their answer to Foursquare. It failed almost immediately—not because the feature was bad. The graph was wrong. When people built their Foursquare networks, they did it knowing exactly what the app was for. A Foursquare friend request meant something very specific: You’d be ok running into this person IRL. Facebook's graph was built for something else entirely—reconnecting with classmates, staying in touch with family, documenting life milestones. By t...