Blue Monday
Posted: January 17th, 2011 | Author: Sermad | Filed under: Hackproject, Interaction, Internet | 1 Comment »
Today is ‘Blue Monday’ – The most depressing day of the year. So naturally people have a moan and a whinge (only human). However, a *lot* of people do this on Facebook and unknowingly let the world see what they have said. When you are slagging off your boss this can only be a very silly thing to do.
So to highlight this sillyness, I created – Hate My Job. It scans the Facebook opengraph for status updates containing the words ‘hate my job’ and then shows you them. All of this information is publicly available, update, image and their name. I chose not to display their name but I did show their image.
Inspired by “Evil” by Tom Scott and this tweet by Edward Boches.
*Edit – I should say that Dr Ben Goldacre has a great post showing that ‘Blue Monday’ is a PRÂ exercise, invented by a holiday company to sell more travel. But is it now embedded into culture, is Blue Monday here to stay?
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