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I don’t know about you, but for the better part of my wireless life I’ve always enjoyed the benefits of a wireless connection coupled with friends to share it with. Nope, I don’t mean an open WiFi network. I’m talking about social WiFi.
WiFi as a social concept, at least here where I’m from, is null and void. On many occasions where my friends bring portables to a coffee shop, the buzz of conversation dies down being replaced by the muffled clicking of their trackpads.
I guess the best place to start is going wireless in a pizza joint. Social food is always good. That’s Adel and myself with our Powerbook and iBook chatting, downloading stuff and sharing photos while waiting for our pizza.
For some strange reason, it’s more fun to socialize when you have a transparent Apple logo on the back of your ‘book.
2261 days ago
[...] I was elated to have found that Butch made reference to a piece I wrote some time ago about WiFi and social norms. In what’s become an odd downside to wi-fi, people in cafés now talk less to each other where there’s wireless to go and a laptop to play with. As happens in many of our PhilMug “wala lang” meetings, half a dozen geeks might trot out their machines on a long table, order drinks, and start chatting with absent friends or even each other – on wi-fi. As tech writer Jayvee Fernandez notes in one of the best-produced tech blogs to have emerged recently at The AfterMac, “WiFi as a social concept, at least here where I’m from, is null and void. On many occasions where my friends bring portables to a coffee shop, the buzz of conversation dies down, replaced by the muffled clicking of their trackpads. I guess the best place to start is going wireless in a pizza joint. Social food is always good. That’s Adel and myself with our PowerBook and iBook chatting, downloading stuff and sharing photos while waiting for our pizza.” [...]
Nice thought, sure beats texting while out with friends. Plus the Mac itself could be a conversation piece or icebreaker. Woohoo!