This Would Be Fun

Check out the YouTube video of a real live social experiment put on in Grand Central Station. It is really pretty amazing to not only watch the people doing the experiement but the reaction of those around them.

This takes me back to my days as an undergrad when in a Sociology class we were asked to do a social norms experiment and report back. The creativity of a college student is fun to see and I can remember some of the students 'projects'. A couple of my favorites were two guys sitting on the tables in the Caf for meals that day instead of the chairs, a girl intentionally standing close to people when speaking to them, and one of my favorites (which I do sometimes in crowded places) walking "in peoples walking lanes" (you know how you pick out a path when walking in the mall and it irks you when someone walks in your path). Anyway, this video took me back to that. My project, btw, was going down town and riding in the elevators of the high rise buildings...except, I would get on and go stand in the corner like I was in trouble. It was fun!