Amid recent NSA-surveillance uproar, music duo Big Data explores voyeurism in our tech-obsessed society with new song "Dangerous," roping in the listener with an interactive music video. The Facehawk experience, with permission, takes the viewer's Facebook photos and statuses to complete the personalized music video (as seen in the above image).
"With each new song, we always try to examine modern problems of technology and the ongoing love/hate relationship we have with it," Big Data's Alan Wilkis told Mashable.
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"The song 'Dangerous' in particular is inspired by this new and bizarre cycle of voyeurism we all experience with the Internet — the idea that we are able to peer deeply into the lives of others through Facebook and yet, at the same time, our every single click ... is anonymously monitored, tracked and recorded," Wilkis added. "And as innocuous as our day-to-day Internet usage feels, there's something disturbing about what's happening beneath the surface."
Wilkis, a Harvard graduate who attended the university when Facebook launched, said he's the social network's 4,132nd user. He wants the interactive video to remind people of their lack of privacy they've subjected upon themselves.
"Facehawk is provocative, compelling and almost forces you to have an opinion about your personal information being so readily available online," Wilkis said.
Rajeev Basu created the Facehawk experience, which he describes as a "controversial and subversive" project. Facehawk takes Facebook's HTML code and turns them into graphics for the video's hawk animation.
"It takes something that, today, is such an everyday part of most people's lives — Facebook –- and reframes it in a way that people have never seen before," Basu said. "It's meant to be jarring and make people uncomfortable."
Wilkis and Big Data singer Daniel Armbruster's EP comes out Sept. 24.
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We love your babies, really we do. We do not, however, relish vivid descriptions of their every wee wee and poopee. And we especially don't look forward to 46 similar posts every single day.
Congratulations, you have a job! So does the majority of the rest of the 900 million people on Facebook.
We simply ask one favor: If you wish to market, create a marketing page. If you wish to lose all your friends, keep spamming them with P90X ads.
Urban Dictionary defines "vaguebooking" as the following: "An intentionally vague Facebook status update that prompts friends to ask what's going on, or is possibly a cry for help."
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"Wondering if it's all worth it..."
"Yep, that just happened."
"Karma is a bitch."
I really don't think anyone cares about our third trip to Dunkin' Donuts this week. For that matter, I'd prefer if my boss didn't learn about our weeknight rendezvous at **FREE-Tuesday-Night-Jager-Shots-With-Purchase-of-PBR-Tall-Can Tavern.**
"Sometimes I wish I wasn't 5'10" and stunningly gorgeous because then I could just walk in peace."
MySpace may have popularized the "selfie," but we're pretty sure Facebook is keeping it alive and well.
We're not total squares. We appreciate a good tune now and again. But somehow, reading your ass-random song lyrics out of context doesn't toot our trumpet, if you know what I mean.
Does [insert politician here] reward you for being his top ultra liberal/conservative social media mouthpiece? He should.
HT @mention, @mention FWIW, Twitter is not the same as FB. #kthanksbye.
There's a reason people on Facebook discontinued the third person status update. Because it got old. Ergo, stop doing it.
I am not in that sunset picture, but you seem to want me to be. Or you just want me to hate you.
Variation: Any post that ends with "Amirite? [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name]."
It's so refreshing to know that people subscribe to you for your intelligence and wit. Oh right, that and marriage proposals.
A) Full-blown conversations on Facebook between a couple that sees each other every day and may even be sitting next to each other on the couch, for all we know.
B) Posting publicly about private or sensitive matters pertaining to family, friends, legal matters, religious beliefs, health, violence or even feminine hygiene products (yes, we've seen it).
KITY (Keep It to Yourself).
When did it become trendy to go by your middle name instead of your last name? Some of us missed the memo.
Creating a month-long event? Cool. Now I have 30 days to plot my revenge.
There's no reason you and your partner should maintain separate profiles — you breathe the same air, keep the same secrets and mourn the same crippled identity, right?
A sarcastic and timely Someecard can be quite effective, we admit. But the chances of success are one slim to none.
"Repost this Facebook status to protect your privacy!" Sound familiar?
Fake rumors like these often start as political, marketing or social campaigns, and are designed to spread awareness through fear. But really, it's the people who blindly perpetuate these rumors who should be afraid — very afraid.
The hand-on-hip trick creates a slimming effect, also known as the "skinny arm." It's especially effective when paired with a bent knee and photographed from the side.
Only problem is it's no longer a secret of the sorority pros. Now everyone knows you're just trying to look skinny.
Image courtesy of Flickr, Greek@Duke
It's really important that every single one of your 400 Facebook friends knows that you're training for a 5K, that you stubbed your big toe during a recent jog, and that your runner's diet of chia seeds is doing wonders for your digestion.
Pet peeve: people who don't remove the URL once they've copy/pasted it into a status update. Result: ilooklikebarackobama.com on top of ilooklikebarackobama.com. Hurts my eyes.
Image: Facehawk