DIGC Field Notes Journal

Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate, with everything becoming accessible on the internet, from buying concert tickets to buying groceries to reading books and watching the latest movie to connecting to all your friends, family aquaintances and friends of friends of friends.

I along with 400 million other people am a user of Facebook. Facebook for me is a way of communication between friends and family and people that i have not seen in a while or dont know all too well. Using this digital commuication device it allows people to talk to people they know and dont know on a range of topics and interests of which would not normally happen if based on face-to-face communication.

Of my 446 friends there is  65876 links between them and myself. Some of my friends have no links with other people whilst others (those I went to school with mainly) have around 200 links with my friends.

Above is my unique Facebook Friend Wheel, a application available if a Facebook account is held. I discovered this at http://group8020.com/social-media/facebook-visualization-2034/, called Tools to Visualise Your Facebook Network it has five different ways to graph this visual biography of the connections and interconnections between you and your friends.

The wheel above shows in blue the largest connections and red for the smallest connections or no connections.

Although this visualiser shows who i am connected to and who they are connected to within my friend list, it it does not show why, such as through family or similar interests or through school. Showing this would add depth to my digital biography.