Kyoko Kaneta


http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#phototag

" You have 19 photo tag requests. Confirm all 19 pending photo tag requests?"

Today, social networking sites such as Facebook influence the way we document our real lifestyle.
Facebook allows people to share and freely expand information on self-representation. The use of photography and text create the space for an open dig into the archaeology of youth.
I joined Facebook in May 2007 and added a few old school group photographs. Initially the photographs represented myself in the context of my own 'profile' album. Soon a collective act of 'tagging' requests started to identify others in the photographs, who then added the images into their own album collection. The comments made about the photographs lead to a diverse topic of conversation blurring the boundary of me in a context.
For some, Facebook is a way of self-promotion, a way of announcing a lifestyle. For me perhaps there is a gradual loss of context.

Facebook - A new veneer of self-presentation