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Facebookaholics Anonymous Meeting Script/Plan

Plan – Facebookaholics Anonymous

Intro

* Thank members for attending

* Introductions and how often they use Facebook

* Explain purpose of the group and the intentions – read the leaflet out

* Talk about confidentiality and honesty/respect

* Disclaimers – all must sign

* Brief intro to concept of fb identity and social identity construction

Group discussions

* Does your Facebook profile really represent you, if yes in what ways?

* Have you ever lied or exaggerated the truth on Facebook, if so why and what

* How often do you post something fairly mundane/boring on your own or someones elses timeline, why?

* Why do we feel annoyed about people posting mundane/boring things on their profiles, should we feel annoyed?

* Would you be happy if there was no way to untag or remove things from your timeline?

* Would you be happy if everything you did in a day was posted on your timeline as a status and why?

* How selective are you with your profile pictures/photos you are tagged in, and why?

BREAK

Split into pairs and hand out paper and pens

Pair discussions

* Why would you try and alter your identity for Facebook?

* How is your online identity different from the real life you and how? (photos, statuses, fitting in with social groups, music, films, ‘likes’ – selection and choice)

* How often do you write how you really feel in a status?

* Are you happy with how you come across in our Facebook profile?

* Have you ever posted something or changed your profile picture, then removed it because no one ‘liked’ it? And why?

* If you had to make your Facebook identity more representative of your real life identity, what would you change?

* Who are you trying to impress/ fit in with through the construction of your Facebook identity?

Feedback on pair discussions – Any issues raised etc

Confession Time

* Is there anything you would like to share with the group, anything you feel embarrassed about your profile… something you’ve done, or not done, hidden, posted, stalked, lied etc

* Thank group for sharing

* Any feedback

* Any thoughts provoked from the session

Cecelia Kane – How Am I Feeling Today?

Cecelia Kane’s piece, How Am I Feeling Today?, originated from the idea of Facebook’s status updates, How Am I Feeling Today? To which Kane responded by taking 89 photographs, one a day, these photographs expressed an array of emotions which provoked her friends to ensure she was okay, due to the nature of her photographs being deemed ‘unflattering.’  Kane’s project looks at the construction of identity on Facebook, and the questions of how representative of the real you is your virtual identity?

Cecelia Kane, Day 37, Weightless, 2009. Digital photograph, 8 x 10 inches. Photo courtesy Cecelia Kane. Available at: http://burnaway.org/when-facebook-leads-to-art-cecelia-kane-explores-identity/

Cecelia Kane, Day 37, Weightless, 2009. Digital photograph, 8 x 10 inches. Photo courtesy Cecelia Kane.
Available at:
http://burnaway.org/when-facebook-leads-to-art-cecelia-kane-explores-identity/

Bibliography:

Hansell, S. 2013. When Facebook leads to art: Cecelia Kane explores identity – BurnAway. [online] Available at: http://burnaway.org/when-facebook-leads-to-art-cecelia-kane-explores-identity/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Facebook shuts down artist’s plan to issue mock “identity cards”

In response to Torbias Leingruber’s Facebook Identity cards, Facebook planned to shut down his project due to trademark infringement, however Leingruber claimed that all of the information used on the cards was accessible to the public from people’s online profiles. Liengruber felt that although his project was shut down, it was a success.

However, Leingruber managed to continue his projects by changing the name from Facebook Id, to the more generic ‘social network’, the Social Id Cards using the same layout, colour and fonts, Facebook used Leingruber still managed to continue his project. Offering a limited number of Facebook users these Id cards. This makes me question whether or not the project would have had as much publicity if it wasn’t already criticised for its infringement issues? Similar aspects of appropriation of format have been used within our logo’s.

Alongside this another artist Moritz Tolxdorff, worked with a very similar concept making Google + Id cards, however Google haven’t responded in lawsuit. These are available at : https://plus.google.com/+MoritzTolxdorff/posts/8opAZGV5GVJ

 

Bibliography:

Leingruber, T. 2013. Social ID Bureau // Get your Social Identity Card NOW!. [online] Available at: http://socialidbureau.com/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Plus.google.com. 2013. Moritz Tolxdorff – Google+ – Create your own +Google+ ID cardI posted it earlier today…. [online] Available at: https://plus.google.com/+MoritzTolxdorff/posts/8opAZGV5GVJ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Protalinski, E. and Protalinski, E. 2012. Get your own Facebook, Google+ ID card | ZDNet. [online] Available at: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/get-your-own-facebook-google-id-card/9671 [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

The Daily Dot. 2012. Facebook shuts down artist’s plan to issue mock. [online] Available at: http://www.dailydot.com/news/fbbureau-facebook-identity-cards/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Torbias Leingruber – Facebook Id Cards

Torbias Leingruber explored the idea of online Facebook Identity and it’s privacy. His idea looks at the raising social identity crisis and shows the extremes of how it could manifest in the future, by giving people Facebook identity cards as they enter the gallery. His ideas came from a trip he had made where he claimed to have been asked for his Facebook name as a form of identification instead of his passport, he related this to social networking sites and how they are used by society in the digital age.

 

Bibliography:

Martin, R. and Martin, R. 2013. Get your Facebook ID card. [online] Available at: http://o.canada.com/technology/get-your-facebook-id-card/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

The Creators Project. 2013. Artist Explores Online Identity And Privacy With Facebook ID Cards | The Creators Project. [online] Available at: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/artist-explores-online-identity-and-privacy-with-facebook-id-cards [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

 

What’s next?

To further develop Facebookaholics, we plan to hold at least two more events, the first of which is to interview an individual (we have already located) about his experiences when he removed himself from Facebook, we plan to document this event through film, hopefully located in a small room, we plan to use the upstairs store room in Studio 11. The second event is to further research into Counselling, using two pilot cases, one male and one female. Within this event we will try ot break down and discuss the construction of the subjects Facebook Identity and their choices for their profile. Where FA is concerned we may also look into making a Website, and a final performance, in conference form.

We also feel that to develop our project further we need to research into the setting up of a non-profit organisation and to do further artist research into performance art, public art and participation, as our previous artists are specifically linked to Facebook apart from Bryony.

After these we will further evaluate our research and decide where it is we want to take it, this is important this is very different to Tess and mine’s previous practices, where we are very practically based, and often know where our project is going. Within this project we are unsure what the results will bring us to.

Facebookaholics Ethos

We began by outlining the points we felt were important to be included in the organisations ethos through mind-mapping, these were the following:

  • Promoting the realisation of social identity, and people becoming more aware of how they are portraying themselves
  • Non-profit organisation
  • Founded in 2013, by Tess and I
  • Aims – Raising awareness of the social identity crisis and the construction of it
    Researching into the public ‘s construction of their Facebook Identity
    Identifying key area’s and the reasons for this problem
  • Why – Trying to identify why it is that people feel the need to construct a fake identity that is un-representative
  • Offering support to people expressing difficulties with their Facebook identity or an addiction to Facebook

 

We collectively came up with the following Ethos for Facebookaholics:

Facebookaholics was founded in 2013 by Esther Yates and Jemima Williams. The organisation aims to raise awareness of social identity construction with regards to Facebook. Alongside this, interaction with the general public to collect research enables FA to identify key areas and reasons for this crisis. FA aims to offer support to people expressing difficulty with their Facebook identity or an addiction to Facebook. Promotion of the realisation of social identity is key allowing the public to become more aware of how they portray their virtual selves.

Bibliography:

Alcoholissues.co.uk. 2013. About Alcoholics Anonymous and Support. [online] Available at: http://www.alcoholissues.co.uk/about-alcoholics-anonymous-support.html [Accessed: 5 Dec 2013].

Fa – Facebookaholics

After constructing our banner logo, we decided we needed a shorter logo to work alongside the previous logo within our range or events. Using the same methods as before, identifying Facebook Blue #3B5998, lucida grande and the same like hand before we came up with the following logo. We decided to shorten Facebookaholics to Fa within this logo, so it could be used as Identification cards, within our card wallets.

Facebookaholics, 2013

Facebookaholics, 2013

How much do you like your profile?

We began by making a logo for the Facebookaholics meeting, looking at Facebook and researching font styles and colours.

Facebook Blue, used within the header is #3B5998, however whilst using photoshop it was easiest to print screen Facebook, paste and use the eyedropper tool for a exact match. We then looked into fonts, these depend on your computer, On Windows this is Tahoma, but on Mac, it is Lucida Grande. We Decided on Lucida Grande. To work with associations we decided to find a like hand similar to Facebook’s so use with out logo. The catchy slogan helps to address the matters of the Social Identity Crisis

How much do you like your profile?, 2013

How much do you like your profile?, 2013

This banner logo was further used for publicity for our Facebookaholics meeting

Facebookaholics Meeting, Publicity Handouts, 2013

Facebookaholics Meeting, Publicity Handouts, 2013