Tag: Facebook

  • Fronting social surveillance

    A new breed of open source web applications are popping up and gaining momentum among privacy concerned citizens. They’re called Invidious, Nitter, Bibliogram, Teddit or Scribe. Their main purpose is to propose alternative interfaces to “corporate social media”.

  • D’une coquille vide à une autre…

    Beaucoup d’appels au standard depuis le déménagement, beaucoup d’incompréhension, des questions, des remarques et même un commentaire en bas d’article. La toile est en feu. Alors voici un peu d’eau pour ceux qui se préparent à faire le grand voyage. Bon, Diaspora*, je te passe l’histoire de la naissance et des espoirs déchus. Disons juste…

  • Avis de déménagement

    Le 31 décembre 2015, minuit, heure belge, j’ai désactivé mon compte Facebook.  Aujourd’hui, ça fait un mois qui j’y avais pas remis les pieds. J’ai appris deux choses: un, j’étais intoxiqué, deux tout le monde s’en fout. Ça fait des mois (des années?) que je pense à me sortir de ce réseau social qui me…

  • I finished Facebook #orSoIThought

    On May 27th, I’ve finished The stupidest game on Facebook. I was silently running this little self-amusing game since the 15th of May and then, later on, opened the process publicly. In the end, it took me less than 15 days to fill up to 99 the most famous 3 icons that you find on…

  • The stupidest game on Facebook

    and you don’t need to install any app for it. While contemplating the most watched icons on Facebook, it became obvious to me that this was an actual Facebook score. I’ve always believed Facebook is a game. And therefore, it should not be taken seriously. Any other use of Facebook would be foolish. So these…

  • lvMchn_560.gif

    Just submitted this gif to the Transnumériques – Videoformes 2015 award. This gif is a compilation of screenshots done by the [loveMachine] over the course of 6 months. All selected pictures contain Facebook error messages. The [loveMachine] does screen captures every time it runs. Because the script works as a screenless process, this visual feedback…

  • La poutre de ton Facebook

    Depuis le début du projet [loveMachine], je reçois régulièrement en guise de clin d’œil des captures d’écran ou des avertissements de mes amis me renseignant le comique, l’incongru ou le glauque des articles que je “like” sur Facebook. La [loveMachine] est un script qui se connecte sur mon profil à intervalle régulier et “like” automatiquement…

  • Photos that I like

    Facebook has a default search proposition called “Photos that I like“. Since the [loveMachine] is doing its share of likes every day, I wanted to have a look. And for the most part, I have no idea what it is going on.

  • If you don’t share any love, you don’t get any friends

    Or why a sudden decrease of daily friend requests got me thinking that the [loveMachine] wasn’t running anymore. I’ve been running a script for about 8 months now that logs into my Facebook account and automatically likes everything it sees in my home timeline. This activity generates a lot of clicks on my behalf, around…

  • “Mom and Dad in 1978”

    Au cours d’une virée nocturne, je tombe sur cette page A4, pliée et abandonnée sur la table d’un boui-boui Saint-Gillois. Quel trésor et quelle chance, voici la trace que Facebook a pénétré notre réalité. Je m’empresse d’extraire cette relique aux yeux de mes compagnons de sortie. Le papier étant de pauvre qualité, l’atmosphère graisseuse du…

  • Gay men, Facebook and Pakistan

    Exactly 7 months after starting the full time [loveMachine] project, here are some numbers and speculations around this experiment. As you know, the [loveMachine] is a bot that logs into my Facebook account to click on every possible like button it can find (although it doesn’t click on ads, neither becomes fan of new pages…

  • [loveMachine] reached level 2

    More than a month already has passed since I’ve planned to write this post. I thought about naming it “[loveMachine] frustration level 2” or “[loveMachine] turns into a hate machine” as suggested by some users. But its a totally different post that I’m glad to write today. Since the beginning of June, Facebook has been…