You might find yourself in this book. ‘Friends of Andreas Schmidt’ and ‘Add as Friend’, also unofficially known as ‘Facebookbooks’, are two book volumes by Andreas Schmidt in which templates known and familiar to over 400 million Facebook users are being re-presented.

Schmidt allows us to browse his Facebook friends (organised alphabetically by first name) and his potential new Facebook friends (suggested by Facebook and organised by decreasing numbers of mutual friends) on a specific day, namely the 15th of December 2010. Together the books make up a snapshot of Schmidt’s social networking reality and his suggested dream-network of an ever increasing number of desirable friends, as seen through the eyes of Facebook. Once again Schmidt has used seemingly redundant information and has created poignant art books, in which not only a sociological survey of people’s choice of visuals for self-representation is preserved but, perhaps more importantly, a number of universal and existential questions are being raised. How many more friends will Andreas Schmidt have in one year? How many of the suggested friends will he add over the next four months? How many new Facebook users unknown to him will make contact to be his friend? Will you be in Schmidt’s next Facebookbook?