Someone I work with called James Easterbrook, a smart agency guy at MyAgency (at 33 Digital we work alongside MyAgency on some of our clients), recently did an experiment where he lived his life by the book for a month. He found some surprising results in the process too. He turned it into a column and everything. ["Man Tries to Obey Every Government Guideline for a Month" - Wired, June 2010]
Shortly after he did it, someone asked me: "Has anyone ever lived their life for a day/week/month asking their social network to make every decision for them?" I pointed to James' column as the closest thing I could think of aside from a couple of experiments I did in the last year where I used Twitter and Facebook instead of search engines for a week.
So I thought I would give it a go... at some stage in the next week (arbitrarily I've decided that stage to be when I reach 6,000 followers on Twitter), I'm going to start asking Twitter and Facebook whenever I need to make a decision.
If you want to join in the game, wish me luck, and follow me here or here.
[why am I doing this? My job is helping companies understand how social media affects their business, and we always have to try stuff out. Maybe this is a try too far :{ ]
Wow that's brave Drew! Good luck!
I'll be keeping an eye on for your tweets!
Posted by: twitter.com/richard_baker | August 01, 2010 at 07:17 PM
Nice, good luck with it Drew. I will be waiting to see what happens.
Posted by: Chris Norton | August 02, 2010 at 04:13 PM
Too far? Not at all! I think it's a great idea.
Posted by: Jay | August 03, 2010 at 12:55 PM
@adamvincenzini and I did this for a week and it was a lot of fun. Aside from one slightly unpleasant lunch at Pizza Hut, it was liberating to surrender free will for a while. We met a great guy called Kevin who taught us to make cocktails at Sainsbury's, I discovered the wonders of Tsunami in Clapham North and neither of us lost any clients. Hope you have as much fun as we did. Good luck!
Posted by: Beth_Carroll | November 29, 2010 at 02:20 PM