According to my social glitch experiment, I preformed a similar exercise which Nathan Fielder established when sending out a message to his loved ones where he showcased different point of views and reactions to the messages he sent out. For a little background about myself, I enjoy doing nature photography to small cinematography projects where I film the environment around me.
The way I first started this experiment was a casual, friendly conversation with a loved one, in this case, I messaged a few friends on Facebook. The topic of the conversation was to tell them the news where I was hired to work on a documentary that required me to hop onto a plane to Brazil as soon as possible. The catch is that I don’t know how long this project would take to produce and finish.
I first tried it on two friends who lives out of state. We haven’t seen each other for a while, but, I still have a strong communication with them. However, one of them was a bit worried about the news. She seemed more practical over how my education was more important than right away getting this job.
A contrast to my other friend, she was fully on board with the idea and was super excited for me. Overall, when I told them it was a lie, my particular friend wasn’t so happy about being tricked. While my excited friend was disappointed that she won’t be visiting me in Brazil.
As you can see, my first two friends were female and were distanced away. So I expanded on getting more different results by testing it out on an old friend. On the other hand, my male friend lived in the same town, but, we sometimes talk to each other whenever we have time. The general outcome of his reaction was a mixture of happiness and bitterness. Though he acted humble over reminding me to “remember the small guys,” I broke the news and told him it was fake and was just an experiment.
In conclusion, I found this exercise to be refreshing to see how well certain people know you and their personalities at play when it came to particular topics that related to life issues; in this case, future jobs and careers. If I could have expanded more onto this experiment, I would have messaged either of my parents or maybe a complete stranger. Why? There is many different perspective when telling these type of news to a parent verse to a friend. It just depends on how well these people know you and you know them. To finish off, social glitch experiments can be interesting, but, how would this experiment be tested if you told a person face to face or through old school communications, like a phone call?