I really like this piece from the SMH on real life social networking. ¬†I’ve always argued that the best social media programs have strong links to real life activities. ¬†Charles Purcell tested that assertion quite literally.
…the status-updating feature of Twitter [is] like “standing in George Street and shouting out what you had for lunch”. So I stand in Pitt Street Mall during lunch hour.
“I’m going to have Hungry Jack’s for lunch today smiley face,” I bellow. A few people look on in contempt. The lunchtime crowd walks around me as if there is an invisible bubble of shame around me. I wait an awful 30 seconds, then scream: “I polished my corns last night.” (I have no corns.)
It’s not dissimilar to this video:
Uh huh. Someone on Twitter the other day was ‘making mac and cheese’. Seriously, how banal is that? Could there be ANYONE interested, even close friends of this master-chef, in that particular tweet?
This rock star mentality of my generation is pretty sad.