Analysing Results.

It was interesting through reading through the results that a lot of people that answered that yes their profile on facebook was private, then answered the next question about what information they allowed the public to see that a lot of their information was still readily available for anyone to see.
One of my friends who answered the survey told me later that she didn't actually know to hide any of that information, and a lot of people think that by clicking private, that hides everything, when actually you have to go and individually find everything to hide, proving quite tricky.

Survey Results.

Peer Discussion.

Discussing in the studio with Bonnie and Frazer I was still unsure how to gather my information and gather different types of data and how to actually start. We came up with the idea that perhaps I should create a survey to see what peoples privacy settings were like on facebook and how they interact on social media sites.

Survey questions;
1. Is your profile set to private on Facebook?
-Yes
-No
-Parts of it
-Don't know
-Don't care

2. What Facebook profile information do you currently allow the public to see? (Check all that apply)
- Current city
- Hometown
- Gender
- Birthday (month and day only)
- Birthday (month, day and year)
- Interested in (men/women)
- Photos
- Relationship Status
- Friends
- Employer
- College/University
- High School
- Religion
- Interests
- Email Addresses
- Phone Numbers
- Street Addresses
- IM Screen Names
- Website

3. How many friends do you have on Facebook?
- 1- 50
- 50- 100
- 100- 200
- 200- 300
- 300- 400
- 400- 500
- Over 500
- Over 1000
- Over 2000
- Other (please specify)

4. How many of your Facebook friends do you actually know?
- 1-25
- 25-50
- 50-75
- 75- 100
- 100- 150
- 150- 200
- Over 200
- All of them
- None of them
- Other (please specify)

5. How many of your Facebook friends do you actually interact with on a regular basis (online or in person)?
- 1- 20
- 20-50
- 50- 100
- Other (please specify)

6. How regularly do you get friend requests from people you don't know?
- Everyday
- Often
- Sometimes
- Rarely
- Never
- Other (please specify)

7. Do you accept friend requests from people you do not know?
- Yes
- No
- Depends on what they look like
- If they have mutual friends with people you know
- Other (please specify)

8. Do you often 'check in' on Facebook?
- Everywhere you go
- At interesting places
- Sometimes
- Rarely
- Never
- Other (please specify)

9. When did you join Facebook?

10. What other social networking sites do you use?
- Twitter
- Myspace
- Instagram
- Tumblr
- None
- Other (please specify)

Facebook Profile.

I decided to create a facebook profile under the alias of 'Dana Talysis' which actually spells 'Data Analysis'. I chose the image of a girl in a mask from Google images to represent that facebook can always be masking a fake person, it's easy to create a fake persona and become someone you're not online. 

I was curious to see how many people would actually accept the friend request from me, and if anyone would just randomly add me, or interact with me.

A few people have sent messages already, asking 'sorry do I know you?' showing that even though

people know that they don't recognise my name, they are curious to think maybe they do know me from somewhere. 

A few people interestingly accepted my friend request and then decided to delete me after probably looking over my facebook profile. The whole idea of masking and hiding the identity is something that interests me, perhaps combining hidden elements as well as revealing elements. 

Adapting.

Thinking about how my concept could be adaptable and used by other people.
- a program that collects your data to create a pattern.
- abstract so that it wouldn't be obvious what your data was.
- the more and more people that bought into it the more and more obvious peoples data would become?
- different colours to represent different aspects of life?

Tutorial Notes.

-Build up a record of what you do.
                  - Statistics.
                  - About yourself.
                  - Building up a persona?
                  - Create information.
                  - Fake profiles; celebrities.
                  - Explore different paths first.
                  - Tracing yourself/someone else.
                  - Tracking.
                  - Coding.
                  - Data flow.
                  - Make accounts.
                  - People responding/will people respond?
                  - How far can it go? Record responses?
What is my approach? Is it more about privacy or the personal?
- more ideas to fuel concept, has potential to broaden.

Look at the Data Flow books and also Information is Beautiful.

- Advertising targeting at you.
- Website tracking.
- Company supplies fake profiles for money.
- You don't know who you're talking to.
- Who is it about? - not set in stone, something people can adapt.
- Playing around with imagery.
- Coding as a language.
- Try a few types of information.
             

Privacy Articles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22025729

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310965/Special-Investigation-It-took-just-hour-internet-experts-private-womans-life.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2058205,00.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-fined-7m-for-street-view-snooping-8532257.html

Just a few of the articles that I've found researching privacy scandals within technology and the internet.  Privacy is a major issue in many different strands of the internet, social media is definitely a large culprit for this. 

Even though there a constantly new regulations put in to try and manage privacy online, how can you ever really manage the internet?

With more technology being made by the week, integrating into different aspects of peoples lives, privacy is likely to just get worse. 

The use of apps are becoming more popular, which often use data and information, where possibly 3rd parties would be able to get hold of it.