Facebook Graph API: Get date of joinin

Question

Follow up to this question for Facebook Friends.getAppUsers using Graph API that pulls friends using app by
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=installed

is it possible to get date of joining also with the id’s?

Peccavi

Just a comment, me/friends?fields=installed This is interesting. The installed field is not documented. I wonder how many other fields are not documented on Graph API objects. – Placket

@Placket it's not documented on user object documentation but somehow was noted on deprecation note for users.isAppUser of REST API. – Deceive

Yeah, I know! I wish there was a place we can look to find the other "hidden" (aka undocumented) properties there are on the Graph API that are only gettable with the fields= query string. – Placket

yup, just like how the backdated_time field shocked me two days ago!! – Dabble

Would you look at that :P All the big names of FSO in one place :) – Synonym

@Lix, I would rather link to this stat (where I'm still ahead of DMCS!) ;-) – Dabble

@Dabble - I really can't stand looking at FB questions anymore :P Dunno if you are on meta at all - but we are trying to change some things that might help let us keep our sanity with all the Facebook madness :P Check it out- meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126114/… – Synonym

@Lix, Yes I'm aware of the controversy that is happening on Meta. I also upvoted, favorite and commented on OffBySome question. Now let's keep this conversation relevant to the question ;). I would love to see Igy answering this question. – Dabble

Answer 1

No, Currently it is not possible to get date of joining of user to app.

But you can do one thing whenever any fb user registers/ connects with facebook application, store current date/time with his facebook id in your system. And when you want display date of joining then map friends id with your database table.

Jacobus

Answer 2

Nope, you can't do this :( Even trying to get all their news feed and choosing the first or most backdated one won't work anymore. A very funny and probably irrelevant attempt could be by searching the user's inbox for a "welcome to facebook" message.

Also, if you could tell us why you need this information, you might be able to get suitable alternatives.

Footage

I would like this too because I want to use Facebook to help verify a person is real. I.e. if they've had a facebook account for over a year with over 20 friend connections it's unlikely to be a bot as FB would probably have deactivated it. It's far from full proof but is certainly better than asking them to send a birth certificate in – Tote

:) yes, I definitely agree though I'm not sure the OP intends to do that. – Footage