Interact With This Plant Online, Or it Dies in Real Life
In a somewhat twisted game of social interaction, a digital culture centre in Australia has set up a Facebook page called Meat Eater. The site page is connected to a plant, and the more you interact with the page, the more the plant is fed/given nutrients. Basically, if no one uses the Facebook page, the plant will die. It somehow seems cruel, even though I buy plants and allow them to wither with some frequency.
Nonetheless the reason we’re sharing this story with you is because it demonstrates the power the digital world can have on the tangible world. Though our lives are affected daily by things happening on the web, this is a reminder that those effects manifest in many ways.
