title: Facebook graph api - access a public friends list of a user
body: <p>I was trying to understand permissions around friends list using graph api explorer. </p>
  
  <p>If there is a user whose friends list is public and the user is not in my friends list nor do I have any mutual friends with that person - i can still see friends of that person on Facebook which tells me that their friends list is public. But when I use graph api explorer to do the same for that user I see the following exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
      "error": {
      "message": "Unsupported operation", 
      "type": "FacebookApiException", 
      "code": 100
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does someone know why that is?</p>
  
  <p>Also, another related question is - even if I can see my friend's friends on Facebook, I cant see that via graph api explorer because for graph api to show it my friends should have made their friends list public, is that correct?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>