Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Facestat is a site that allows one to upload a headshot for others to evaluate. The site allows you to select some questions that call for one-word answers. Political affiliation, for example. (Apparently I look conservative.) How old do you think I am? (Big winner here: 45.) It also asks for one-word descriptions, which in my instance range from flattering ("cheerfulprofessor", "MoverShaker") to somewhat less so ("ThurstonHowell", "rodent", "small-eyes", "red"). Someone said "woah", but someone else said "ehhhhh". It's an interesting toy-- a personal focus group of sorts, although now that I think of it, its usefulness is somewhat limited since I don't really know much about the demographic that is using it. It's kind of a Facebook thing, which means that we are dealing with a young crowd. And I guess I already knew that I look red and professorial.
// posted by Bill @ 9:47 AM 
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