ME, ME, ME

I’ve noticed a new trend bubbling away, which is your chance to get the disturbing amount of data that’s floating around in the ether about you, made into your very own infographic installation…

From the top there is the ‘Facebook book‘, which takes all the info from your Facebook profile and prints it out in numerous graphs and charts and pictures, and spits out a book as a keepsake. As a designer, I like the book, something tactile and graphical. It’s the kind of thing one is unlikely to throw away, which means in years to come, when the internet and social networking has changed beyond recognition, any of these books that are collecting dust anywhere will be an interesting time capsule of how we used to do things.

Then there’s Intels ‘Museum of Me’, a little egotistical maybe, but based along the same principal as the book. It takes your Facebook data and creates a virutal musem of your photos, stats and data. Less tangible than the book and, by its nature, a more fleeting experience.

And finally, there’s the vizualize.me site, which turns all the data in your CV into an ‘infographic’ resume. I hope employers are bracing themselves for a glut of CVs all trying so hard to be different that they’re all the same.