title: Facebook og:type meta-tags - should I just make up my own?
body: <p>I'm putting the required meta-tags into my pages and I have a list I saved from facebook's documentation at <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/#types">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/#types</a> </p>
  
  <p>Two problems. One is that my list of business types is, in total:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>bar</li>
  <li>company</li>
  <li>cafe</li>
  <li>hotel</li>
  <li>restaurant</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>which is a little crazy. Every type of commercial entity in the world can be categorised as one of those five things? There's not even "store"?</p>
  
  <p>That list is confirmed by this page: <a href="http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/optimise-your-website-facebook">http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/optimise-your-website-facebook</a> but my second problem is, Facebook no longer seems to be providing a list at all. The documentation says it was updated a month ago.</p>
  
  <p>The tutorial holds out the interesting promise that "Facebook says that it will actively monitor the most commonly used types and add them to the list of supported og:types in due course." so it seems I can make up my own, say "store" or "supermarket" and that won't be an error.</p>
  
  <p>What good or harm will it do to make up my own? What does Facebook use this metadata for anyway?</p>