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A graffiti artist who signs their work 2wenty goes around to poor areas and creates a piece of art which is light and comical to bring attention to the way the area is. Like many graffiti artists, 2wenty passes out stickers and puts up stickers everywhere he or she goes as a sort of business card. The idea is that others will also put up 2wenty’s stickers and his or her name will be known to all. His or her stickers are different than most.  2wenty has created a cigarette box but instead of cigarette printed on the front Facebook is instead.  2wenty believes that today, the younger generations are addicted to social media. The parallel between Facebook and Cigarettes is fitting because to many Facebook is a harmful addiction. Honestly, I check Facebook way too many times a day. There is no reason for me to be checking Facebook, other than to creep on people I don’t really care about and to procrastinate doing homework. My roommates and I have monthly challenges and first quarter one challenge was to see who could go the longest without checking Facebook. It took 2 weeks before one of us gave in. 2 weeks—that’s just sad. We have become so dependent on Facebook that people give up Facebook for Lint. I know several people that told me that Facebook or twitter is what they were giving up. You are supposed to give up something that would be really difficult to give up and people choose Facebook. I agree with 2wenty that the addiction to Facebook is becoming ridiculous. Facebook is a good website; I just think that people are becoming too dependent on it.  Like texting, Facebook is becoming an easy out for people; they no longer have to say something difficult to someone’s face they can now make it a status or message on Facebook.

                I would consider all of 2wenty’s work art because it is a personal disposal for his or her creativity. Many would argue that the stickers are not because they are computer generated but I would argue that they are because they were designed to be simplistically but they still provoke emotion and are something that a lot of creativity was needed to create.

                If you were going to design something very simplistic in looks to convey something in society that you thought was right or wrong, what would you critique? The war in Iraq, Twitter, our politics? I think that 2wenty. How would you distribute it? 2wenty wanted people to recognize their growing dependence on Facebook as a society so the sticker idea was a good choice. People will distribute the stickers whether they think they are cool or not because the act of putting stickers on public things is fun- it’s rebellious. 2wenty won’t have to travel to get his work to other states and countries; others will do that for him.  The sticker also allows others to manipulate the image and add their own work ontop of his, which many have done.