digital check-in: imagining social media as accommodations
What would social media platforms be like as actual places of accommodation? Would they be a fancy hotel in Dubai, a music festival in California, or a sleazy roadside motel?
Social media platforms reimagined as Places to Stay. A lodging hierarchy of social platforms. Which one would get a five-star rating?
Bedbugs and algorithms: the accommodation guide. No vacancy for original content lol.
I'm not sure why, but this notion amuses me so much. Then, I almost broke my brain trying to write a massive list of all past/present social apps and trying to reimagine them as physical places.
Extra thoughts: where would different blogging platforms live on a map? What other analogies could I attribute to internet homes? What if Bear blog was a novel? What kind of novel would it be? Who would be the author?
What about the bones of a website? The architecture of Internet homes.
What if every part of my website resembled a room in a house? The front door/welcome mat would be my homepage. The top navigation would be my foyer. The kitchen would be my stylesheet/code area, where I alchemized the framework of my site. The bedroom would be private, RSS-only posts for a select few. The dining room would be my blogroll, where I'd have lively chats with others over a meal and a glass of wine. The guestroom would be dedicated to my readers of course. The studio upstairs would be where my blog posts lived. My offerings, like my art & zines, would live in the office. The back porch would be my footer links. The shed in the backyard would house my drafts and forgotten posts/ideas, and maybe there would be bygone CMS buried in the garden. The attic would be a treasure trove of vintage posts from yesteryear.
