Life in Dots

Life in dots is a small data visualization project that lets you know every time you’ve made a post on Facebook. Inspired by this WBW article, the idea is to be able to see from a different perspective everything we publish on social networks, specifically on Facebook.

About the app

First, you need to log in with facebook and give permission to read your posts. Don’t worry, the app will not store or publish on your profile.

After waiting a minute you will be able to visualize each of your publications through dots in chronological order (the most recent publication go first). Each dot represents every time you post something on Facebook.

As for colors, these aren’t there randomly. Golden dots represent status updates and orange dots represent third-party stories (links, videos, etc.).

You can browse, scroll and click on any dot to see that specific publication (and remember old times).

Learning React

React’s component philosophy is by far one of the most interesting topics and thanks to this project I’ve been able to finally implement some of the basic concepts in a real application. The project code is available on Github.

Application privacy policies

Social Life in Dots doesn’t store the data of the users who use the application, except for the temporary session that is created when a user returns and use the app again. The application doesn’t publish or take any action on the profile of the user using it.