“Just as refinements in mirror crafting led to an increase in self portraits during the Renaissance, Facebook's unrelenting invasion...has led to a new renaissance in portraiture, notable for its creation by people who wouldn't know good art if it friend requested them…. Like all art forms, Facebook portraiture has its own lazy tropes – the laptop camera shot, the blue sky background, the blinding flash in a bathroom mirror – but even these thoughtlessly captured snapshots yield unintended insights about their subjects: How is the photo cropped? Can we see the subject's abs? Why is she giving us the finger?"*