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  • Facebook and the surveillance society

    Facebook never forgets - the surveillance society

    Facebook never forgets

    A cartoon about Facebook monitoring and recording its posts as part of the surveillance society.

    Cartoon showing the Facebook logo as the head of an elephant watching and recording the activities of its users.
    The elephant is used because of the expression ‘an elephant never forgets’ – and because the f in the Facebook logo looks a bit like an elephant’s head

    The cartoon is meant to link Facebook with Big Brother in George Orwell’s book 1984.
    It is about surveillance of the internet by organisations and government, internet users’ surrendering of privacy, net privacy, a potentially distopian future.

    Drawn: 2012
    Cartoon reference number: a254
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  • Facebook is watching you – illustration/cartoon

    facebook is watching you - big brother

    Facebook is watching you/Big Brother is watching you

    Cartoon about Facebook monitoring its posts

    Cartoon showing the Facebook logo as a head with eyes watching and recording the activities of its users.
    A cartoon comparing Facebook with George Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984.
    Drawn: 2012
    Cartoon reference number: a253
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  • Cartoon – Facebook shares dive after floating of Facebook

    facebook share price dives - cartoon

    Facebook share price dives

    Cartoon about Facebook’s share price diving when Facebook floated on the Stockmarket in 2012.

    Cartoon showing the Facebook logo as a submarine periscope, with the sub diving like the share price

    The price of Facebook shares has fallen since the company was floated on the stock exchange recently.
    The cartoon plays on the stock market terms such as float, dive and sink.

    Drawn: 2012
    Cartoon reference number: a251
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  • Facebook cartoon/illustration. Facebook as Big Brother – Facebook is watching you!

    facebook cartoon big brother watching privacy

    Facebook privacy protection illustration.
    Facebook as Big Brother.

    Illustration depicting Facebook’s logo as part of a face with the caption “Facebook is watching you”.
    The face is meant to evoke the concept of Big Brother, from George Orwell’s 1984 (especially because of the eyes). The caption is based on the 1984 slogan “Big Brother is watching you”.

    Facebook monitors and retains vast amounts of information about Facebook users, including deleted posts and messages, and also stores information about the user’s physical location. Such information helps Facebook and other companies target advertising on individuals.
    As Facebook and similar organisations become bigger and more powerful the implications of their use of user data becomes more and more worrying. Facebook, Google and other internet megacompanies could easily take on a Big Brother type role.
    At the moment (2012) the use of user data is probably concentrated in marketing and market related spheres, however there is no reason why such data couldn’t be used in future by repressive governments or other repressive controlling organisations.
    A graphic depicting issues concerned with internet privacy.
    Update 2020: Facebook is being sued in the USA because of its near monopoly in the fields in which not operates (it now also owns Instagram and WhatsApp).
    Drawn: 2012
    Cartoon reference number: a119
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  • Facebook cartoon. The monetization of social media

    facebook internet marketing cartoon

    Facebook cartoon. Facebook friends cartoon

    Facebook internet marketing cartoon, showing a Facebook page with the message “On-line marketing wants to be your friend”.

    This cartoon was drawn when Facebook was due to be floated on the stock market in 2012, based on the idea that following the proposed stock market flotation Facebook would change from being a social networking site into a commercial marketing site, appropriated by business and commercial interests as a channel for selling their goods and services.
    The process had already started, with data about Facebook users’ ‘likes’ being used as a means of targeting and reaching potential customers.
    The joke in the cartoon is that business interests cannot be your ‘friends’ as they are only interested in you because of your money.
    A cartoon about the commercialisation of social media sites. A cynical view on what it will mean to be a Facebook friend in the future.
    Drawn: 2012
    Cartoon reference number: a115
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