The Chrome plug-in turns photo albums and Facebook posts into a canvas ripe for the defacing. Downloading it lets any would-be virtual graffiti artist draw Snapchat-style doodles on top pictures that gets posted to Facebook, which are then visible to other people with the app. "I wanted to find an interesting way to augment and/or subvert the Facebook experience," Simon told The Creators Project. "I went through a lot of really shitty ideas (generating 3D worlds, etc.) before deciding on extending the basic, original metaphor of Facebook: walls."
Seeking to capture the "vulnerable and gritty" qualities of IRL walls on the "clean and polished" internet ones, Simon called upon the public at large to trash Facebook with augmented tags. The public has since answered his call, but rather than the grimy spray paint and territorial claims he was expecting, users have skewed towards artistic photo edits and pop culture references, isolating a single weird face from one of President Obama's speeches, and outfitting a person in full-on Super Saiyan garb.
If this digital vandalism seems like it might irk Mark Zuckerburg and his friends list, Simon isn't worried too worried: "I don’t expect any backlash," he says. "There are certainly other extensions that modify Facebook." Still, he's interested in what might happen should Facebook try to stop FB Graffiti: "I don’t believe there is anything they can do, so it might even be fun to see them try."
(Beckett Mufson for The Creators Project)
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