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Photographer Lindsey Yeo of Detroit
Facebook. Where would we be without it? Indeed, where were we before it showed up like an enveloping cloud - embracing us, linking us, inviting us, and reminding us over and over again that you don't have to be face to face with anyone in order to be ... face to face with everyone.
Too early (or too late?) to debate such matters. And what would be the point? Facebook is here and it's staying. Anyway, WE know we're your favorite website and a little competition is healthy now and then.
Besides, the ubiquitous "place where friends meet" has done us an indirect favor. It prompted Jef Bourgeau and his colleagues at Pontiac's Museum of New Art (all three-dimensional people, thank you) to set up an exhibit devoted to real friends in the real world. And here's the welcome twist - they've decided to use Facebook profile pictures as the "medium."
So what you will be seeing starting June 19 is a perceptive visual essay with such appropriate words as ironic, expedient, humorous, timely, and (perhaps) inevitable being called into service for the occasion.
