So what happens when you are at a convention or at a party, and meet tens of new people. In the old era, you usually exchange business cards (which mostly lie around in your wallet or on your desk for eternity, after which they mostly get discarded into the bin during the periodical wallet purge or desk cleaning sessions.
In the new age, you usually ask for the twitter handle, or fb account name or phone number et al. And since we all have smart phones, we add the phone number or search (and add) the twitter handle or search and invite (and wait for approval) for the fb account.
Well its time taking and clumsy to say the least. There is no way you can get complete coverage, you meet a small percentage of people, and even out of those, you remember to add just a few.
Coming to coverage, what if you want to contact, stay in touch with people you haven't met at all. What if the scenario was a little different, what if it was really a one day classroom session that you were attending. We have all been there, the only networking time is during lunch times. But at the end of the day, you always think, oh what was that guys name, or did anyone get an answer to this. Here to usually you create a whatsapp group, or the instructor creates a google group or what not.
Another scenario, you went to see a movie in a theatre, and there are scores of people in the movie hall. Suddenly the screen goes blank, and you are just sitting in the theatre waiting...you'd want to shout, but
All of these scenario leads to one problem, how do you instantly get in (and maybe stay in) touch with people who are geographically co-located with you because of any reason - a class, a convention, a movie hall. How do you instantly create an adhoc social network based not that one social connection.
There should be a way to do this automatically.
In the new age, you usually ask for the twitter handle, or fb account name or phone number et al. And since we all have smart phones, we add the phone number or search (and add) the twitter handle or search and invite (and wait for approval) for the fb account.
Well its time taking and clumsy to say the least. There is no way you can get complete coverage, you meet a small percentage of people, and even out of those, you remember to add just a few.
Coming to coverage, what if you want to contact, stay in touch with people you haven't met at all. What if the scenario was a little different, what if it was really a one day classroom session that you were attending. We have all been there, the only networking time is during lunch times. But at the end of the day, you always think, oh what was that guys name, or did anyone get an answer to this. Here to usually you create a whatsapp group, or the instructor creates a google group or what not.
Another scenario, you went to see a movie in a theatre, and there are scores of people in the movie hall. Suddenly the screen goes blank, and you are just sitting in the theatre waiting...you'd want to shout, but
All of these scenario leads to one problem, how do you instantly get in (and maybe stay in) touch with people who are geographically co-located with you because of any reason - a class, a convention, a movie hall. How do you instantly create an adhoc social network based not that one social connection.
There should be a way to do this automatically.
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