Feb 12

Social media exists offline at Mac Uni.

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While at this MESA event with friend and colleague Collin Douma, one of the doe-eyed students asked the most poignant question of the night – “Does social media only occur online?”

No way! Collin’s first example is one of my faves. But I recently came across another great example in the local paper.

Notebooks. 50 of them, specifically. For 5 weeks they were circulated around the MacMaster University campus for students to contribute to them as they saw fit.

Some examples of entries:
* Math people turn coffee into theories
* Your friends will keep you sane
*I am not in science of engineering; no matter what anyone says I’ll never be flipping burgers after my degree.

Reminds me of Twitter but on paper! Who would have thought that would fly? It also makes me think, if one of those notebooks came across my path, what would I say?

With the notebook I have only one chance. It’s not like my blog, or Twitter, or my Facebook status, all of which I can update as much as I want. Also, it’s on paper. It just seems so final.

What would you write in that notebook?

  • Well, I don't know if this is indicative of anything, but I think I would write this:

    You are the master of your mind

    It may sound cliché, but I personally get comfort from thinking that.

    great post!
  • Zoe
    hey Megan,

    you are spot on with the pressure concept. It's like when someone has a camera on you and says "Say something funny." - who can perform under that kind of pressure?

    As for the quote board (which I miss dearly), it is very similar. however, I think it worked for 2 reasons:

    1) It was ongoing, not final. It kept getting updated every time we would say something funny (or stupid). Boy, was that often.

    2) It was in hindsight. Although all of us knew that the quote board existed, we weren't thinking about it and what made it to the board was decided AFTER someone said it.

    That being said, you should get yourself on Twitter. The more I think about it the more I realize that it's just a web version of our quote board (at least for me).
  • Megan
    I'm curious to know what people would write mainly because I can't think of anything that I'd want to put down myself

    is there more pressure to be clever/funny/smart/thoughtful because it's on paper??... almost because I'm actually going blank when I try to think about what I would write

    though it kind of reminds me of the quote board you had when we lived at Glendale/Glenridge
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