writing | ben fry » javascript http://benfry.com/writing Visualizing Data Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook http://benfry.com/writing/archives/662 http://benfry.com/writing/archives/662#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 18:48:12 +0000 admin http://benfry.com/writing/?p=662 Inspired by this post by Kurt Opsahl of the EFF, Matt McKeon of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab created the following visualization depicting the evolution of the default privacy settings on Facebook:

sorry, still don't have an account on fb

Has a couple nice visual touches that prevent it from looking like YAHSVPOQUFOTI (yet another highly-stylized visualization piece of questionable utility found on the internet). Also cool to see it was built with Processing.js.

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