title: Open Graph Usage
body: <p>I guess this is more of an "ask for information" post rather than "fix this for me" post. I've done some research but im a little confused as to what the facebook open graph is.</p>
  
  <p>To give a little bit of background, basically i wanted to post user actions to users facebook walls (assuming they were logged in via facebook). I originally was going to do this in the same way as Twitter. That is to say, i was simply going to request the write permission and post something to users own wall under using their account access token.</p>
  
  <p>However i came across this graph API, which seems to be a far better way of doing this, and it allows it look a bit more fancier than just some wall post. So i finally read and understood enough to set up my open graph action and object. Fought with the meta tags as i didnt understand how they worked, and finally got the debug tool for the graph to return a nice set of info about the "object" that the action was taken on.</p>
  
  <p>So i went to run a code test and nothing appeared on my wall or anywhere i can see. After some var_dump()'ing, i see that theres a whole lot of info coming back from the api call. It does seem like its returning multiple sets of the same info with different id's, but i assum its working as im getting info back about my "object" and dont see anything that looks like an error.</p>
  
  <p>So after that i read some more, and i think i found that open graph is useless unless the user has this timeline thing activated which was supposed to go live to public a couple of weeks back.</p>
  
  <p>So a few questions if anyone could answer them:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Are these graph api calls useless unless people use this timeline thing. If yes, are there any other ways other than direct post to wall's to do what i want to do. Also, if yes, is there a way of checking if the user has timeline active (as a way of providing fallback if it isnt)</p></li>
  <li><p>Will at some point this timeline be applied to everyone and take over something.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>P.S: If you haven;t gathered, i'm not a big facebook user, so please excuse the use of words like "thing" and other stuff i say that seems strange :) </p>
  
  <p>Thanks to anyone that can provide some info on this</p>