The importance of social media and its ease of connection and popularity has taken over the thoughts and concerns of anyone living. In this series by Taiwanese artist John Yuyi he plaster social networking visuals in tattoo form across the models, from Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and more. See the series below:
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How We Laugh on Facebook
Facebook collected information from a week in May to see how we laugh on Facebook. Collected from monitored comments, posts, etc. we have the main contenders broken up into graphs. The graph Facebook created says 15% of people include laughter in a post at least once a week. The most used laugh is “haha” with 51.4%, followed by emojis with 33.7%, following “hehe” with 12.7%. The least common is “lol”, which only makes up 1.9% of laugher online. See more sassy graphs on the Facebook blog.
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Facebook’s New Gender Equal Friend Icon
Facebook has been making a few updates, nothing new there. But this time the Friend Icon we’ve become familiar with has had a specific gender equal based update. Instead of having the woman shorter behind the man now they have become the same size, and she’s in front. NOBODY puts faceless icon woman behind faceless icon man! Did you notice the update? “As a woman, educated at a women’s college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a position to lean in,” said Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner. “My…
