domenica 11 gennaio 2009
random guest list
I wonder how it would be to make a party with all the people that I see online at the moment in skype.. Probably the best description would be 'quite randomized social experiment', as a lot of them are from totally different groups and have never met before, so the constellations would be rather interesting. Best would probably be if I was not present at that event, so the unifying factor would not be there either.. (and noone could eat me in case of things not working out ;)
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Why stopping at experimenting only with the guest list? You could feed them with gray peas and turn it into a fart-party.
with enough drinks I can party with people I dislike, so random people is even easier.
If you pay for the drinks many ppl would sign up. Otherwise in most cases it is stupid not to ask who else is comming to the party.
Anyway, why was it you would do it?
Just for curiosity..
I was simply contemplating the fact that my contact list is not as homogenuous as it used to be some time ago. There used to be mostly people that knew each other, which now is no longer the case. Thinking that most of them where somehow friends with me (a common characteristic, if you want) I was wondering if they would prove to be socially compatible if mixed.
First of all, let me say that I really like a heterogenous list of friends or, for that matter, skype contacts. I guess it's a pretty unique feature of my disjoint groups of friends that they are each nerdy in their particular way; but I find a combination of their weird features a lot more comforting than just a single group with a single set of weird features.
Last year, I actually tried bringing a couple of these groups, I think it was 'like' four of them, together at my birthday party. I wasn't able to interfer much as I was asleep most of the time (you witnessed that particular feature of my character already, as far as I am able to remember) but the evening - overall - was a success.
Sadly, one of my best friends got lost in this setting and left quite early. Afterwards, I figured out that he was the only one who was the only member of his disjoint group present at my party. This is not to say that my party was a success because the groups stuck to themselves and were thus able to communicate, more like all those who knew that someone else who liked them was around already were less frightened to try to talk to someone they had never seen before. Just the one guy who wasn't feeling quite so "safe" was unable to contact anyone except for me which - because of that special characteristic of mine mentioned before - was no huge help for him.
After a really bitter night and morning, I concluded that the overall idea of bringing disjoint groups of friends together was a big success. Next time, the only thing I am going to try to accomplish is having a save habor for everyone I invite, as in, a friend he or she knows already and is comfortable talking to. It will be an even bigger adventure this year, having all my new friends and fellow students around, but I am looking forward to it like never before.
So, returning to whatever you might have written in your blog post I comment-hijacked here, feel free to try bringing together the people you like no matter how small the obvious connection between them might be. People, to my mind, are often able to communicate based on really minor things they can all relate to, and - in conversation - they often find out compelling characeristics of one another, further deepening their novel relationships. Just make sure I am online when you send out your invitations; I would love seeing myself in that particular situation.
good point about providing some safety in terms of known people.. even though i have made the experience that in that case you might indeed end up with the regular groups hanging out in different corners of the room and refusing to communicate with each other.
maybe this could be fixed by adding such crowd of people that there is no free space left between the corners ;)
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