This series of prints titled Facebook_Defaced is meant to represent myself and how I socialize and connect with people online using Facebook. The three pieces contain elements all of the information I’ve shared online, starting from when I registered an account in early September 2o06, and ending late October 2010. Using Facebook’s ability to download all of the data you’ve put on their network, I placed all of the Facebook wall posts, comments, and all of the messages I’ve ever sent and received into word clouds. The clouds contain the 1000 most popular words found on my 4-year old Facebook account and are ranked by frequency. The number beside the words indicate how many times that word was said or received in a message.
The photo collage contains the 625 photos that I’ve posted on Facebook. The photos look fairly new, as I have only recently been uploading my photos to the network.
The assignment asked for a digital graph – and while these pieces aren’t technically ‘graphs’, I feel that they strongly represent my online, Facebook identity. They also speak to online privacy issues, as the ability to download received messages may be pervasive.
Print Size: (2) 40 x 18 inches & (1) 32 x 17 inches.
