It’s not very often you meet people that make you seriously think about your life. For those of you who don’t know I work at an Apple store. I genuinely love my job and the people who I work with. A typical day at the store is like any other retail outlet. You sell stuff and you answer lots of questions..pretty typical. Today I’m happy to say was a change from the normal. A woman walked into the store and approached me. She wanted to purchase an iPad. I thought it was a run of the mill sale. We’ve always been taught to ask lots of questions to best tailor the product to the customer. I simply asked her “so what’s the iPad for”. She responded “I’m doing a social experiment”. Naturally I was curious so I asked her what the experiment was.. “Well, I’m going to take 10 pictures with the iPad and then give it to a friend and let them do the same thing and so on. The idea is using iCloud i’ll be able see all the pictures and what people see as important enough to take a picture of”.
Now this probably sounds really simple but I thought it was pretty awesome. The idea that someone cares enough about someone else to want to know more about their life through pictures is quite unique. Apparently she planned on creating a blog that she would update with all the pictures. I think my only concern with this is what happens if someone suddenly stops taking photos or they lose their iPad. I didn’t ask her because I was pretty floored with her experiment. The odd’s of me ever getting a chance to use said iPad are pretty slim but i’d feel pretty cool if I had the chance to add to the blog.
Things like this help me to remember how great technology is and how it helps people do things pleasantly unimaginable.
