An application developer has created a gigantic digital canvas, consisting of every user’s Facebook profile photo.
The display, reminiscent of television static, can be zoomed in and one can then click on each photo and be forwarded to that particular user’s Facebook page.
TheFacesOfFacebook.com displays 1.262+ billion Facebook profiles in chronological order, and it’s a project created by developer, Natalia Rojas.
The Faces of Facebook project.
So how was that made possible?
Very simple.
Developers using the Facebook API can access graph.facebook.com and query the Facebook user database by serial number. By extracting the data returned by that unique serial number, they can then substitute the number with the username, and extract both the name and the user’s public photo.
It’s an NSA wet dream.
For example, graph.facebook.com/4 is Marc Zuckerberg, who can then be viewed at facebook.com/zuck. At graph.facebook.com/666 the serial number points to facebook.com/xiwang427.
Serial numbers are then increased by one; some get skipped as these profiles no longer exist.
We are not sure how long it took for the developer to extract the data, as there are limits to the number of queries per IP one can place on the “graph” server. Natalia Rojas claims that no privacy rules have been violated in the making of this project.
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