Artist Alexander Oudin is credited with creating the new Facebook phenomenon, profile hacking. In essence, beautifying fb profiles by cropping a single photo six times, tagging yourself in five, and making one your profile avatar.
Hundreds have jumped on the bandwagon, and the results are highly entertaining.
Applications are popping up to slice & dice your favorite photos, making a snazzy profile page. I used Pic Scatter to create mine using the awesome “Kitty In A Tree” picture from last week. Another app that looks handy is FBCrop.
If you’re like me, you’re going to waste spend a lot of your day uploading pics and playing around with these apps. Have fun, and let me know what you create!
Here are a couple I made yesterday while I could have been cleaning the house, watching football, and feeding my family.
Don’t blame me if you do not get all of your errands accomplished.
• Will you hack your FB profile?
• Would you rather friend request Burt Reynolds or Kim Kardashian’s Ass?
• Have you finished your Christmas shopping?
Comment By: Pop
December 20th, 2010 at 9:43 am
I’m surprised Kim K’s butt only took up four of the pics on the right. Personally, I’d friend George Costanza before Burt Reynolds
Comment By: Jean
December 20th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Pop, that’s hilarious! What an observation. ROFL! On behalf of the Costanza family, let me wish you a Happy Festivus!
Comment By: Mama Mary
December 20th, 2010 at 10:04 am
I’m home all day with a sick kiddo so I might have a little “free” time to play around. This is pretty funny.
Comment By: Jean
December 20th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Mama Mary, I think you’ll have loads of fun. I hope sick child is soon feeling 100% better.
Comment By: Marian
December 20th, 2010 at 10:42 am
That is so neat! I may have to try this! How fun! Thanks Jean for this!
Comment By: Jean
December 20th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Thanks, Marian. Can’t wait to see what you create! You are a gifted photographer.
Comment By: Michelle Saunderson
December 20th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Oh my, I may have nightmares about Burnt now. LOL
Comment By: Jean
December 20th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
LOL @ Burnt! What other man has posed so seductively? 🙂
Comment By: Charlotte
December 20th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
LMAO!!! Okay, thanks for that. I just spit my tea all over my computer screen. That Burt pose is, uhm… something else :p LOL!!! Awesome. Amd I love that Kim’s ass gets its own profile.
Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Thanks, Charlotte! I was surprised that Burt’s Moustache actually has its own fan page! Bwahahahaha!
Comment By: Angelia Sims
December 20th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Oh man, I think you got me with the hook…..
Really? I had no idea about this…I guess I need to spend more time on “real” facebook and not the mobile version.
I. Am. Intrigued.
Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 8:14 am
Angelia, I can see you being very creative with this option! Let me know.
Comment By: Kimberly
December 21st, 2010 at 3:28 am
Hahahh! That Burt one is both hilarious and hairily disgusting all at once 😉
Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 8:15 am
LOL, Kimberly! I’m glad he held his arm “just so”.
Comment By: Sedate Me
December 21st, 2010 at 8:21 am
If you’re like me, you’re going to waste spend a lot of your day uploading pics and playing around with these apps.- Jean
I think you were right the first time (with “waste”). By the way, how do you stroke-out words like that? If I ever get my website off the ground, (see: Frankenstein’s Monster) I most certainly want to know how to do that.
Will you hack your FB profile?
The day I go on Facebook is the day I kill myself. I think the same holds true for most people, if only metaphorically speaking.
Would you rather friend request Burt Reynolds or Kim Kardashian’s Ass?
I’m not sure if I’d touch Kim Kardashian’s ass with a 10 metre pole held by Burt Reynolds. Who knows where that thing has been to get her “career” where it is?
Probably 98% of these so-called “friends” are nothing more than place holders, a way of padding one’s statistics to make these losers who waste their entire lives on Facebook feel better about themselves.
“But I have so many friends here.”
Exactly.
• Have you finished your Christmas shopping?
Don’t get me started on that bullshit.
Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 9:03 am
Sedate Me, put the greater than/less than symbols around the letter s or the word strike to cross out words.
Can hardly wait to see your website.
The bullshit of the season is nearly over. Let’s get to 2011.
Comment By: Sedate Me
December 21st, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Thank you ever so much, Jean. I’ve been wondering how to do this for years. I figure this means I owe you some oral sex martinis for showing me how. I don’t consider that too high price to pay.
Regarding the re-animation of my currently necrotic website, like I said before, be VERY careful what you wish for. It could easily become an out of control monster.
Comment By: Sedate Me
December 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Er, let’s try that again. (Is it a new command for each word? Or is there no / in the tag closing?)
I think I owe you some oralsex martinis for that tip.
Comment By: Sedate Me
December 21st, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Motherfucker!
See. My lack of
mental stabilitytechnical ability has severely limited my career volunteer work as a supplier of website content.Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Sedate Me, you did it! Sorry for not replying sooner, but I am glad to see strikes in your comment. Now, yes, you owe me one of those martinis.
Comment By: Sedate Me
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
Yeah, it took me several attempts because
I have anger issuesthe “s” command didn’t want to work, only the “STRIKE” command did. Like most HTML, I’m sure I’ll fuck this up a lot in the future.But, yeah. If I’m ever in Vegas, I owe you some
oralsexmartinis. I know that’s one of your true passions in life, so I’ll be sure to keep that promise.Comment By: Krysten
December 21st, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Oh my gosh that is AWESOME.
Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Thanks Krysten. I hope you’ll give it a try!
Comment By: carma
December 21st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
this is too dang cool – if only I was savvy enough to figure it out!!!
Comment By: Jean
December 21st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Carmen, it’s super easy. Pic Scatter did all the work for me – uploaded to FB and everything. Loved your recent blog re: celebrities!
Comment By: Chaplain Donna
December 21st, 2010 at 5:11 pm
How cool!
Comment By: Jean
December 24th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Thank you, Chaplain Donna. Have a Merry Christmas.
Comment By: Dennis the Vizsla
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:57 am
That’s kind of cool but doing it would cut into my Dennis the Vizsla photo-altering time.
Comment By: Jean
December 24th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Dennis the Vizsla photos are the BEST! You have a gift, sir. Merry Christmas!
Comment By: Wendy
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:14 am
Oh this is too much fun!
Comment By: Jean
December 24th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Thanks, Wendy! I love how you’ve chosen a pic. of your Mama dog & pups for your profile pic @ FB. Merry Christmas!
Comment By: Sunny
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:44 am
Hey! You made it snow on your blog! COOL!!!
I love this! I’m all up for trying it after Christmas. Thanks for always teaching me new stuff! Love you 🙂
Comment By: Jean
December 24th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Hi Sunny! Yes, I found a plug-in to make it snow on my site. I love it! Not sure when I’ll turn it off.
Love you too!
Comment By: Jason
December 24th, 2010 at 10:46 am
I may or may not have just spent my Christmas Eve playing with this! Liking some of the designs though!
Comment By: Jason
December 24th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
And to add, everybody loved my new profile picture. Even though I had a few questions asking why my default pic was of my ear!
Comment By: Jean
December 24th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Haha, Jason, your ear? Oh, I’ll bet you’ve picked a great photo to slice & dice. Now you have to watch for people tagging you. That tends to mess up the visual effect. 🙂
Comment By: Galit Breen
December 24th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
GENIUS! And do I dare admit that I didn’t get what people’s pics were doing all sliced, etc? Go to the profiles. See the whole picture. Riiight. *Sigh* You taught me something new today, Mama! LOL 🙂
Comment By: Jean
December 24th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Glad to have taught you something, Galit! I admit, when friends change their profile pics, I’m looking to see if they’ve done this trick.
Comment By: Sherri
December 25th, 2010 at 8:30 am
That’s pretty cool. No I haven’t hacked my profile yet. At first, I thought this was a blog about how that app is a hack job! I’ve been so busy with xmas preparations, that I haven’t had time for much else. But now that everything will be slowing down and Santa brought me a new Canon PowerShot S95 I might just be trying this out!
Lol @ your comment about cleaning the house, feeding your family etc.
Comment By: Jean
December 27th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Sherri, a new Canon?! Lucky you! Have you snapped a few photos yet? You are going to have so much fun!
Comment By: Marian
December 25th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
This is fun, but I could easily see this becoming addictive! LOL!
Thanks Jean!
Comment By: Jean
December 27th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Marian, I found it addictive too! You have so many great pics to choose from.
Comment By: Grace
December 27th, 2010 at 8:43 am
Oh, wow. Something new to distract me from what I should be doing.
Comment By: Jean
December 27th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Thanks for your comment, Grace. It allowed me to visit your blog, and read your very touching post, “Gifted”.
Comment By: Sle
December 27th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Thanks for the link! It’s brilliant! I’m using it!
Comment By: Jean
December 27th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Awesome, S.Le! Glad to be of help.
Comment By: Jason
December 29th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Mine will sure have to go soon – I have pictures to tag!
I just want to say thanks for sharing. I have been very popular on facebook since I changed it!
Now do I share how to do it, or say it was my own genius idea…tough call!
I hope you had a great Christmas Jean!
Comment By: Jean
December 30th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Jason, I’d go with it being your own genius idea!
Christmas was great. The girls delighted in their new scooters. We just got back from an overnight trip to visit snow. Now looking forward to New Years. I hope you are enjoying your holiday break.
Comment By: Tony
December 31st, 2010 at 12:42 am
I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook, I hate Facebook.
BTW did I mention that I hate Facebook???
Comment By: Jean
December 31st, 2010 at 7:47 am
Tony, I detect a hint of hatred for FB. Give in, Tony. Join us!
Comment By: rijans | TechGainer
January 5th, 2011 at 2:22 am
Nice way to customize facebook profile. Thanks for this creative share.
Comment By: rijans@TechGainer
January 5th, 2011 at 11:30 am
I haven’t test this for my profile. Soon I will try it.
Jean, I want hear more from you..
Comment By: bookjunkie
February 14th, 2011 at 7:38 am
this is so cool!! Makes me think I should get back onto Facebook. You see I quit facebook some time ago but this makes me want to get back on!!
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