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"Admit it: somewhere out there, in the land of social media, there is probably a selfie of you taken from inside a car: \"Oh, hey guys! I'm just shooting this little pictureof me in the backseat of a car because I know you wanted to see what I look like in the backseat of a car. Cute seat-belt strap, AMIRITE??\" Or, quite possibly, there is a selfie of you sticking your tongue out sideways at a friend or flashing duckface (Hi, Miley!). Everyone's done it; it's OK. The Kardashians once almost nailed all three poses in one photo, because that's what their purpose in life is.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nWith over 350 million new photographs being uploaded to Facebook every day, there are bound to be a bunch of these types of photos in millions of profiles on the social media giant. And if you happen to have your profile (or posts) set to \"Public,\" then according to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, \"you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).\" I repeat: Everyone has access to that information. So anyone, anywhere can see you making out with the side of your friend's face. Nice.\n\nPhotographer Jenna Garrett was intrigued by the overwhelming number and public availability of these photos on Facebook. Her project, The Public Profile of An American Girl  is \"an examination of female identity online through appropriated social media images ... and acts as a typology of photographic similarities among young women whose image restrictions are labeled 'Public' i.e. as dictated in the bylaws of Facebook's Privacy Policy.\"So far, Garrett has collected nearly 5,000 Facebook images (all labeled 'Public'), and has separated them into the following categories that kept appearing as she researched:1. \"Licking My Friend\"2.  \"The Face\"3. \"Car Self Portrait\" \n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n4. \"Gang Sign\" Garrett is now presenting them in installation form. \"It's very important to me that the work be viewed as an installation,\" she says. \"here is something really visceral about seeing 500 images of people licking one another. So much of what we do online feels intangible \u2014 people post photos, share their entire lives and say so many things without so much as a thought.\"Garrett's work can currently be seen at Aperture Foundation's Summer Open, through August 14th at the Aperture Gallery in New York City.Follow Elizabeth on Instagram and Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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