How do I speed up /me/home requests?
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I have an application where I want to show items that your friends have shared. This is basically a subset of data that would appear on your Facebook News Feed, so I am grabbing `/me/home` and then filtering out some things that I don't need.

The problem is that `/me/home` is extremely slow. I'm seeing a range of response times that is between 1200 and 10000 milliseconds with an average probably around 4 seconds.

Even with cached connections and a HTTP library that does SSL correctly these request times do not change much.

Does anyone know a better way to grab the News Feed? When I open Facebook in my browser, the News Feed appears pretty much immediately. So I am wondering if there is some Graph API call that is optimized for this data or has this result cached already.

Is there maybe an *FQL* alternative for this?