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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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