1,262,090,690 faces from Facebook in one image

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An artist that wanted us to be able to visualize the massive reach that Facebook has accumulated over the last decade has taken every Facebook user’s profile picture and laid them out in a single image. If you have enough time on your hands, you can get anything done.

Faces of Facebook

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The fact that Facebook has more than 1 billion users is pretty insane, but things just got a whole lot crazier thanks to The Faces of Facebook, a project that visualizes over 1.2 billion Facebook users on one page.

The initial image that greets you is a fuzzy matrix of TV static-like dots. You click on the space to zoom in on users — who are arranged by chronological order based on when they registered on the social network — and, of course, their faces.

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