Social Hallucinations

Facebook In Real Life

What if we acted in real life like on Facebook? It'd be pretty ridiculous. I poke you!

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The Prose of Life

Tags: world through my eyes, daria, poland, street photography

Vice Global Trend Report

Vice magazine published their annual global trend report. Here are a few words about Copenhagen.

People in Denmark like to refer to themselves as “laid-back” and “mellow.” They act like they don’t give a hoot about fashion, or anything else for that matter, but they mix up as many styles as possible in order to acquire absolute nonstyle, and that seems to take a pretty good amount of forethought. Anyway, the desired look is messy, slightly sexy clothes, preferably picked right out of a dirty laundry pile on your floor.

Enjoy. There is more interesting reading not only about Copenhagen but other cities.

Tags: Vice, trend report, copenhagen

What Does Your Brand Mean?

Noah Brier created simple application that allows people to enter words they associate with specific brands - Brand Tags. Really cool and simple tool not only to share your meaning about the brand but to learn how people perceive brands.


Tags: brand tags, Noah Brier

The New Client: The World

I was wondering this morning whether the WE is powerful enough to initiate the change in the world, to work towards solving the most burning issues in to world. Later on I've stumbled upon this video: Humanitarian Lion that calls all Big Guys to create big ideas about solving humanitarian problems. The rule is simple - one entry to Cannes festival binds you to send another entry to humanitarian category. No billboard or TV spots, just an idea.
Great! Let's use our brains to help the world, not only generate growth.



Tags: advertising, Cannes Lions, humanitarian lion

Stupidity Can Kill

There is nothing more endangering for our species and Earth as humans' stupidity. Now it appears that working with idiots isn't only annoying but it can kill you. Apparently it is very stressful to work with stupid people. It is a source of frustrations. How do you cope with stupidity. You don't say to someone to stop being such an idiot. It is against social rules. Usually people keep to themselves those frustrations and it can lead to very serious stress and health consequences.

Download the whole article here.

It is similar to being surrounded by people who are negative. We tend to become influenced by their negativity because of our mirror neurons that get us to do the same thing as the person we are watching (it explains infectious yawning). We learn by observing and imitating other people and it all happens on subconscious level. Thus, there is a risk we can become idiotic. Scary, it can happen i situation when we can't really handle the bad atmosphere, and ineffective work caused by lack of thinking, our brain chooses to adapt and save itself a lot of stress. In Rome do as Rome does...Bad idea! Better solution would be to stay patient and clever and wait the stupid ones become influenced and will follow.

Tags: idiocy, team work, mirror neurons

Jumping Dudes...

..are jumping into their jeans. Last year we had guys throwing and catching "with their faces" Ray ban glasses. This season - guys who jump into their jeans, I guess it is Levis. They are very agile and innovative. Cool even though concept isn't fresh anymore.



Tags: viral, levis, Guys backflip into jeans

How to Spread the Word?

Spreading word is pretty challenging and not easy task. What would you do to spread word? Run naked on the street and shout, give free TV sets or maybe involve cockroaches? Yikes!



ZOO YORK - the skateboard producer - announced "Spread the Word" contest. Participants have to post the video on YouTube showing how to spread the word. Cockroaches get definitely attention.

Twitter Fragmentation

We get smaller, shift to micro software, ideas, communities, like this new program based on Twitter called Twistori. People write and follow Twitter-like updates focused on 6 emotions, states: love, hate, whish, believe, think, feel. Interesting reading that boosts attention and focus shortage by continuous interruptions on multiple platforms. Niches are being filled up. We share everything anywhere anytime. Life - streams are ubiquitous.



Tags: twistori, lifestreaming, twitter

Funbook

It is apparently what Facebook applications are for - having fun.

There are 911,343,980 installs across 24,459 apps on Facebook. Read more about most popular application on Adonomics.

Tags: facebook, applications