Facebook Demographics

Previously, there was a front end search page on facebook (advanced.php) which gave the capability of very specific search criteria such as 'female, 18-25, interests keyword: soccer' and then when you search you would get a list of everyone fitting all three of those.

Now that this search option is gone (for obvious reasons), are there back end ways to do this?

That would of been a nice feature to have

Yeah it was pretty useful. So now that it's gone (it's been gone for a long time now), I had renewed hope that there may be another way when I ran across this forum today. I actually ended up registering because there's a lot of content and discussion on here that I wasn't even aware there were forums that specialized in.

maybe there is one but I doubt it, just be careful, I'd say

Well right now it's just literally not possible through facebook itself. So I can't even be careful with adding people from a certain demo because all searches are based purely by name now, no extra criteria.

It's not impossible because facebook allows you target it specific demographics through facebook ads.

Yeah, I don't know anything really about coding, or back-end database links, but I know like with Yahoo there are tons of things programmers can crawl to get user data at a much faster rate in ways that yahoo doesn't make available at all through interfaces they create for its site users. There must be a few people here who have come across this with facebook, it's just to valuable of a technique to have been ignored for there not to be. I think it's just a matter of them stumbling across this thread