Lost Circles - Social Network
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Visualize the hidden structure of your social network.
UPDATE: 2.3.1:
* fixed problems which for some accounts showed only the first 10 friends.
UPDATE: 2.3.0:
* fixed issues with facebook and download option. Extension should be working again.
* changed to payed extension to finance server hosting
UPDATE: 2.2.7:
* adjusted names to resolve trademark issues
UPDATE: 2.2.6:
* fixed javascript error for network viewer
UPDATE: 2.2.5:
* fixed problems with the new facebook user interface
UPDATE: 2.2.2:
* added Graphml export (should work with Gephi)
UPDATE: 2.2.1:
* fixed json export issues.
UPDATE: 2.2.0:
* Click on a node opens user's Facebook page now
* Make sure you have English language settings in Facebook
UPDATE: 2.1.9:
* Fixed issues for some Facebook accounts
* Visualize and Download can now be used while data is being loaded
* Added Download option without the user images (reduces file size of .json export)
UPDATE: 2.1.8:
* Added download button in main menu. This allows to download large networks, for which some computers are just to slow to visualize it.
UPDATE: 2.1.7:
* Fixed dialog issue
UPDATE: 2.1.6:
* Fixed backbone feature, which did not work for some users.
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Lost Circles allows to visualize and download your facebook friendship network.
A facebook network of a hundred friends or more is often very dense. This is because your friends are usually friends with each other, resulting in a huge number of links. When visualized, such a network looks very confusing and does not have a real structure: we call this a hairball.
Our app helps you to untangle your hairball and show the hidden group structure among your friends: your lost circles. We do this by determining the relative importance of the links and draw your friends with stronger ties closer together. Try it out for yourself!
Latest reviews
can't work
It is very good. But since Facebook has a query limit, I cannot fully visualize my network. Is it possible to load some of the network now, and then add another part of the network by querying later?
I love this extension, but it needs a throttling or delay setting to avoid blocking by Facebook!
It's currently broken - no longer pauses in between requests and ends up resulting in a temporary account block after getting through a couple friends' mutuals. Please fix this because when it's working it's super cool!
I'm now temporarly block from facebook, probably because they thought I was a spam bot :(
I was interested in this tool, but it resulted in my facebook account being temporarily banned. It's ingested most of my friends, but is only showing 4 of them connected in any way, with the rest of the nodes just arranged in a grid pattern. I imagine this is because my account got banned before it could finish. User beware.
really nice but It only linked a very small part of my friend eventhough I dont have that many (less than 1k). It says the feature is now blocked. Anyway around that?
Neat concept, but does not work currently due to rate limits on facebook (blocked me from viewing mutual friends after it started building connections) Given how often facebook changes their APIs, I'm not surprised, but open sourcing the code would allow others to keep up with things like this.
Got a ban from viewing profiles on facebook after running this extension for making too many requests in a short period of time. Didnt even do anything, only exported a blank file. Dont recommend
Works great. Not sure what people's issues come from, but if you have fresh chrome install, good internet connection, patience, and probably no stupid anti-virus/etc programs installed (hello, its 2019?) this will show you crazy connections you had no clue existed.
Works as intended. Set language to English(UK) and exported it to GraphML for an easy Gephi import.
Extremely interesting tool. Took a while to get all the data from facebook but the end product was great. Unforunately there's no easy way to differentiate between profiles with no connections, and the accounts that have been deleted. Also quite intense for the processor, my laptop was lagging quite a bit while trying to manipulate the map.
very good thx u
Worked for me...just have to wait while it loads. Not sure what to do with it once you visualize it. Pack your patience while it loads.
Não funionaou no meu pc
it chugged along for a long time eating all my fb data I guess. when it was done I clicked on "visualize" which displayed a blank white window. it does nothing at all in other words. would "download" export an empty file? that seems to do nothing also. I installed and tried it before fb got hacked. it didn't work then and still doesn't work. Has anyone gotten it to work this year?
ya no funciona con facebook
não funciona
Didn't work, same issue as other users with loading to 100% without any visualisation.
Fantastic tool, but does not work for my Facebook. I've tried with several computers, and taken all the recommended steps. Disappointed that there are still bugs.
Awesome. It worked fine. Could scrape more info but it is very helpful.
Fascinating!!
It`s a wonderful tool for me. Thanks for providing.
Interesting.
amazing
This would be an exponentially more valuable tool for social analysis if, upon starting with a friend's FB page open, it would use them as the seed for another friend-scraping.
I have been searching for this tool for so long!!! I love it! Could you add the ability to map friend x with friend y in the next update??
