Short Info
FB Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook being the dominant social identity management system. We are researching ways to change Facebook's rules and functionality from inside the system. Facebook sets the rules of how-to behave, so we're asking: Are we happy with the interface, features and rules or do we want to change them?

This creative intervention wants to challenge and subvert the rules of that are put on our (online) social behaviour and ask questions today, that everyone one will ask tomorrow.

Mission
Facebook Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook being the dominant social identity management system, researching on the ways to change its rules and functionality from inside the system. FB sets the rules of how-to behave, so we're asking: Are we happy with their interface, features and rules or do we want to change them? A change can be as trivial as adding a background-image. As initiator Tobias Leingruber ( @tbx), puts it: "Facebook designing your online identity is like IKEA designing your apartment. The only individuality lies in the family pictures standing in your BILLY shelves."

While early online networks like Geocities.com encouraged its users to entirely modify their online presence, Myspace.com and Web 2.0 have steered this "User Generated Content" into a commercially valuable structure. Facebook has finalized this "evolution" by disabling the user to do anything but feeding the system that gives FB it's estimated value of 50 Billion USjQuery. Facebook is taking over the social web, and its design follows Mark Zuckerberg's ideals. To quote Lawrence Lessig: "The code is law. The architectures of cyberspace are as important as the law in defining and defeating the liberties of the Net."

Ideas / Hacks
How ironic! To see our big stream of ideas - Go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/189135107782024/
We'll put-up a neat gallery here at some point.

Workshops
What if you could change Facebook's laws? You can! In this workshop participants will be introduced to so-called "browser hacks" that enable to modify Facebook.com. The session encourages thinking beyond the rules and limitations of FB's software to generate useful and, or funny concepts. Moreover, these ideas could be turned into a real software in the near future, developed by the Facebook Resistance. The actual list of workshops is still unfinished, but in the meantime check out, as an example, the workshop at Transmediale Berlin 2011: http://fffff.at/fb-resistance-at-transmediale-docu/

Press Material
FB Resistance Photo Pool http://www.flickr.com/groups/1822825@N22/pool/ (Full Resolution and CC licensed)
Logo & Artwork Download: Resistance Logo Flyer

FB Resistance is a project lead by:
Tobias Leingruber twitter.com/tbx (Founder)
Marc Stumpel twitter.com/zuurstof (Researcher) and
Saskia Aldinger saskia-aldinger.com(Designer)

Join our FB Resistance Facebook Group and participate!
Follow/Ping @fbresistance on Twitter

We're part of / friends with: FAT Lab, Artzilla.org and the internets.
Email us at