personhood

I hope that in our presentation you find humor, research, and ultimately an answer as to how people are affected due to online virality and being the meme. We found our project to be funny, depressing, insightful and a hard look at the reality of our generations obsession with becoming overnight sensations.

You can find all videos used in our Prezi Presentation on Youtube.

What does being friends really entail? Can virtual friendship, such as FaceBook, be of equivalent value to an actual face to face encounter?

Project Description: We created ten fake Facebook accounts to see how "likes" and friends would affect advertising. After some initial difficulties, we discovered that Facebook only advertises when a user has either friends or a location. Other interesting results include one of the accounts receiving friend requests from real people and another account being discovered by Facebook as a fake. This experiment led to us to question the right Facebook has to use personal information for the sake of advertising.