Genius, no. But I think that to hate it to the extent that you’d want to write it on walls all over Shoreditch certainly merits interest.
I mainly like the fact that by writing stuff on walls the person in question is taking social networking back to real world physical basics in a way that completely mirrors the virtual. I’m just waiting for someone else to write ‘I agree’ and then our person has their first WallSpace friend.
people have been writing their thoughts on walls for a long time. having used some of those sites quite some time, i can see where the motivation to do this could come from. i am not sure the person who did this intends to take social networking back to the analog.
also, i feel it might just be one of those “trendier than thou” pseudo-backlashes which can happen when things get too populist.
I don’t think they necessarily meant to reclaim social networking as a real world process, I just thought that seemed to be the effect. But I do think you’re probably right about the ‘trendier than thou’ business.
And thanks for the link. Looking at that honeytrap, as well as the hand-writing (especially the Ys), I reckon it’s the same person. What do you think?
Gashness - im in South Africa at the moment so I cant bear witness to this… people moaning about social networking is like people moaning about mobile phones… eventually everyone gets with the program…
having said that as myspace gets more and more mainstream (the My Mum’s on Myspace syndrome) there’s opportunities for people who can do ASmallWorld style exclusive community
James, Splinter groups like asmallworld are interesting. But I wonder if the ‘my mum’ syndrome is as influential in moving people away from communities as is their commercialisation?
I like your experiment, btw. I guess it shows how quickly myspace has gone from pure social network to starmaker.
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1 kemal // Dec 1, 2006 at 12:46 am
Many people have hated social networking for a long time. Writing it on a wall does not turn it into genius.
2 Steve // Dec 1, 2006 at 10:06 am
Genius, no. But I think that to hate it to the extent that you’d want to write it on walls all over Shoreditch certainly merits interest.
I mainly like the fact that by writing stuff on walls the person in question is taking social networking back to real world physical basics in a way that completely mirrors the virtual. I’m just waiting for someone else to write ‘I agree’ and then our person has their first WallSpace friend.
3 kemal // Dec 1, 2006 at 9:08 pm
people have been writing their thoughts on walls for a long time. having used some of those sites quite some time, i can see where the motivation to do this could come from. i am not sure the person who did this intends to take social networking back to the analog.
also, i feel it might just be one of those “trendier than thou” pseudo-backlashes which can happen when things get too populist.
this ( http://www.trendcatching.com/2006/06/myspace_experim_1.html ) is in a similar vein, but with the oppersite motivation. he seems to have been quite sucessful.(also in shoreditch.)
4 Steve // Dec 2, 2006 at 2:04 am
I don’t think they necessarily meant to reclaim social networking as a real world process, I just thought that seemed to be the effect. But I do think you’re probably right about the ‘trendier than thou’ business.
And thanks for the link. Looking at that honeytrap, as well as the hand-writing (especially the Ys), I reckon it’s the same person. What do you think?
5 jamescoops // Dec 2, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Gashness - im in South Africa at the moment so I cant bear witness to this… people moaning about social networking is like people moaning about mobile phones… eventually everyone gets with the program…
6 jamescoops // Dec 3, 2006 at 6:22 pm
having said that as myspace gets more and more mainstream (the My Mum’s on Myspace syndrome) there’s opportunities for people who can do ASmallWorld style exclusive community
7 Steve // Dec 5, 2006 at 2:51 pm
James, Splinter groups like asmallworld are interesting. But I wonder if the ‘my mum’ syndrome is as influential in moving people away from communities as is their commercialisation?
I like your experiment, btw. I guess it shows how quickly myspace has gone from pure social network to starmaker.
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