Facebook from Five Thousand Feet

Presents an inferred Conceptual Data Model of the Facebook platform as a way-finding map of what has become an extensive system. The visual data models of the various facets of Facebook - Groups, Events, Messages, Pages, Apps and so forth - are mapped down to the descriptive level of the individual data fields as publicly documented in the Graph API 2.0. While filling such a visual gap is particularly useful for app developers, it is an approach open to every reader who wants a better understanding of the four corners of the Facebook platform and what it has to offer, beyond ones current usage. A spinoff benefit of the visual approach, is that it also provides an effortless introduction to Data Modeling around a subject domain (i.e. Facebook) that just about everyone on the planet is familiar with to some degree.