title: Why is it called the Graph API?
body: <p>Many developers are familiar with the Graph API, the main way data is retrieved from or posted to Facebook.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview" rel="nofollow">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview</a></p>
  
  <p>I was just looking into it and I really can't figure it out. Why is it called the Graph API? Why not the Friends API? Or the FB API?</p>