I believe I was the 31,452nd person to "Like" Intel's "The Museum of Me" on Facebook. Using Facebook Connect, Intel takes users on a visually beautiful and informative tour of their life on the social network, inviting users to tour their Facebook life as a "journey of visualization that explores who I am." While it is hard not to be taken with the tool just by virtue of it being really cool, I found it inspiring for how we can perhaps teach people about their personal privacy.
The visualization brought up photos even I had completely forgotten I posted, friends that had likely been added back in 2005 when my college universe still dominated my Facebook existence (as it only used to be open to college students, how nostalgic) and links that even I forgot I posted a few weeks ago, like a video of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's visit to the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. The two-minute tour not only shows your friends, pictures, location, words, links and videos, it also depicts a spherical network of who you are connected to, a visual representation of one's Facebook universe that most users likely do not imagine when they are using the social network day-to-day.
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