The Analogue Facebook
Link: Creative Review – The analogue Facebook
A Life on Facebook
The story of a life told entirely through Facebook status updates (via).
Update: Somehow this video keeps being pulled, let’s see how long this one stays online:
Update 2: And gone again. I can’t be arsed into digging out another mirror of the video, if you’re really curious try searching for “A Life on Facebook” on Youtube, Vimeo or similar…
Reminded me of Google’s 2010 Superbowl ad, which is actually probably even better:
Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
Fascinating article by danah boyd about unorthodox usage strategies and behaviors to minimize risk on Facebook. Deactivating your account upon every logout removes the agency function of your profile, allowing users to retain close control over their Facebook presence by making it impossible to leave traces or interact with a profile when the user isn’t logged in. You basically disappear from Facebook whenever you are not online. This way the social network turns into something more closely resembling an instant messaging platform.
The other strategy described in the article involves deleting previous interactions on Facebook after some time – regularly scrubbing one’s wall to remove any traces of past actions. The act of storing and archiving information on Facebook seems so ingrained in Facebook’s usage model that this strategy never occurred to me as a viable form of engaging with the service, despite having done something similar myself occasionally in the past.
Burglars Picked Houses Based on Facebook Updates
According to New Hampshire’s WMUR Channel 9 News, three local men, Mario Rojas, Leonardo Barroso and Victor Rodriguez, have burglarized more than 18 homes in the Nashua area of New Hampshire simply by checking status updates on Facebook and then pillaging houses of victims who announced on the social network that they were not home.
Burglars Picked Houses Based on Facebook Updates – NYTimes.com
See also: The Case Against Augmented Reality, Please Rob Me.
FarmVillains
I wouldn’t feel great about granting them access to my Facebook profile:
“Zynga’s motto is ‘Do Evil,’” he says. “I would venture to say it is one of the most evil places I’ve run into, from a culture perspective and in its business approach. I’ve tried my best to make sure that friends don’t let friends work at Zynga.”
