Just in case you ever had trouble visualizing what 1.2 billion Facebook users looks like: there’s an interactive app for that. Alternatively, you could also just line up said number of George Takei memes end to end, which would span one and a half times the circumference of the Earth.
Faces of Facebook was created by Natalia Rojas as a way to articulate our shared experience of this dissociative void, which looks an awful lot like a disabled cable connection if you ask me. It’s kind of like Sandra Bullock in space, except it’s all of us, every day, tenuously grasping the threshold of infinite loneliness. But it’s beautiful!
“Because there we are, all mixed up: large families, women wearing burkas, many Leo Messis, people supporting same-sex marriages or r4bia, Chihuahuas, Indian Gods, tourists pushing the leaning Tower of Pisa, selfies, newborns, Ferraris, studio black and white portraits, a lot of weddings but zero divorces, ID photos, faces framed in hearts, best friends, manga characters, politic logos, deep looks, love messages, eyes, memes, smiles, sweet grandparents and some not-yet-censured pictures.”
What’s actually pretty remarkable about this is that it’s found a way to make one of the most individualized expressions of the self – the over-sharing, humblebragging platform of our time – into a completely depersonalized canvas of pixel-sized selfies.
Of course, you can click anywhere on the screen for a zoomed-in version, with profiles appearing in the order they were created. Can you find the Zuckerberg?