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Find yourself amongst the 1.26bn Facebook users on one webpage

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ‘Creative technologist’ Natalia Rojas has taken a different and more direct approach: cramming every single profile picture into a single webpage, in chronological order. Naming it ‘The Faces of Facebook’, Rojas has described the project as a testament to the exhaustive and exhausting scope of the online world: “Because there we are, all mixed up: large families, women wearing burkas, many Leo Messis, people supporting same-sex marriage 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”. Rojas claims that the project is not breaking any Facebook privacy rules “because we don’t store anyone’s private information, pictures or names.” She notes that “we’ve just found a harmless way to show 1,269,543,160 Facebook profile pictures and organize them in chronologic order.” Users can even find themselves and their friends in the pixel-blizzard. Clicking the geo-tag icon in the top left corner connects the app to your Facebook profile, revealing your profile picture as well as an approximation of how quick you were to sign up to the social network.

The Independent

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