What Your Facebook Picture Says About You
Note: This isn't the whole graphic, you need to click HERE to see the whole thing and really delve into the field of Facebook portrait investigation. It's kind of like CSI, in the same way having a bear maul your genitals off is like making out with a supermodel. Basically identical. Now -- here's a badge and gun, let's do this!
What does a person's Facebook portrait say about them? 99% of the time it says they're ugly and trying to hide it. But not in my case. In my case it says, "damn, is that a drawing of a really muscular guy humping a dino in a natural hot spring?" YOU KNOW IT IS!
Facebook's steady, unrelenting invasion of every crevice in the civilized world has led to a new renaissance in portraiture, notable for its creation by people who wouldn't know good art if it friend requested them.
This chart will hopefully help you view specific Facebook portraits within the context of the larger genre, and therefore lead to a richer, more complex appreciation of Facebook portraiture as an emerging form of banal, eye-numbing expression.
I didn't actually bother reading any of that because I hate words worse than getting out of bed in the morning, but I did look at the chart briefly. You know what I learned? Nothing. Just like college -- and I went for 8 years!
A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits [fastcompany]
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Geekologie on Facebook
Thanks to Jericho, tubthumper and Alice, who only post pictures of their pets because they're weird like that. Or -- OR -- they're actually cats and dogs. *DUM DUM DUM!*
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Facebook, the social networking giant best known for consistently making its site shittier and more confusing to use, is now home to 140-billion photos, 4% of all photos ever taken. AND WITH ANOTHER 70-BILLION TO BE ADDED THIS YEAR ALONE. I...find that kind of depressing. Lik... / Continue →
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Note: Obviously that isn't the whole graphic, you need to click RIGHT HERE NOW QUICK DO IT to see the whole thing. Facebook vs. Twitter: there can be only one. Just kidding, there can be more than one. Unless we're talking about bugs in my breakfast cereal, in which case, ye... / Continue →
