What about...?

There are a lot of things you can do via Facebook's website interface, but not through the Graph API. We've already looked at the restrictions to the "like" feature; what else is missing?

Sending inbox messages

It's possible to read inbox messages (as we saw in Chapter 5) but not to create and send them. Facebook had planned to allow apps to create inbox messages but this plan appears to have been scrapped. It's possible that this functionality will be included as part of the new messages; see Chapter 8 for a little more information on this.

Creating Pages, Groups, Applications, and Videos

It's not possible to create any of these types of Graph Object via the Graph API.

This is a little surprising—a Group is not that different from an ...

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