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Being Abroad : The Sketchbook Challenge

With regard to the post below, it reminds me of the output of my final year Diploma project. The project titled 'Xtend' also revolved around the concept of the power of social networking. As an output of the project, I had designed a mobile application which allowed you to peep into your friends mobile contacts (Friend of a Friend aka FOAF) to check and match profiles with the kind of peope you were looking for. If you found someone who matched your profile you had to ask your friend for to introduce you to that particular person. This way a human filter would (hopefully) prevent people from contacting people they din't know randomly.

I personally find the topic of Social Networking through mobiles extremely interesting. However I am much more interested in the aspect of how people carry around their identity with their mobile devices. Whether we like it or not... most of us have some sort of digital identities. An email address, a credit card transaction account, an Amazon account or membership to a social networking site, etc, etc, etc. With internet becoming more and more mobile how will this affect our interactions with people?

How will technologies like Wimax affect peoples interaction and stumbling upon other people? Will location based profile matching take off? Will blind dates get a new meaning? Will we be able to make more friends or will we start protecting and hiding ourselves more than before as our digital identities will be traceable and trackable?