Facebook LIVE!

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Facebook has always been preaching that it is not the social graph. There is some social graph that exists, and Facebook wants to be the best representation of that. It is a pretty simple idea. We each have attributes and relationships with other "nodes". Although Facebook does a good job at being my online social network, it can't be with me all the time like the social graph. So if Facebok is such a good representation of the social graph, why not take it with me everywhere so I can tap its resources at a moments notice? Thinking about this (and being a Facebook junkie for the past month) made me wonder and finally, I decided to try "Facebook Live" (aka being Facebook for Halloween).

Besides everyone thinking they were so funny by poking me, I had a lot of fun. I had small slips of paper that people could write on and I would tape to my "wall". I also implemented a mini-feed for me, keeping track of the happenings throughout the night (mostly posts of "Mark had a drink). The one thing I REALLY wanted to do but wasn't able to was having a Polaroid camera and posting pictures on myself throughout the night.

What was most fun was reading my wall posts the next day. You can definitely see the posts getting more illegible as the night went on. Also, the wall posts were definitely more crass (being a grad school Halloween party) than online. They ranged from nice posts ("Your costume is awesome") to drink gifts references ("X gave Mark a 40!").

If any of you were wondering how much of a Facebook addict I am, I hope this solidified it for you! This class has been a lot of fun and I look forward to growing the PhotoGraph.

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