A few weeks ago I was paging through my FaceBook Stream...and I noticed that some friends of our that had recently moved to Kansas City had gone on a Hot Air Balloon ride to celebrate their One Year Anniversary. (First I thought...Way to go Marcus...You've done good, but set the mark pretty high for say...Anniversary 10)
I looked at a couple of the pictures...and moved on.
About two or three posts later in my stream...was a post from another friend of mine...who I havent seen in a long time...but I know he is an avid outdoorsman...and cyclist. He had posted a pic of his bicycle...and a quote...about everything being cooler on a bike. The Pic was one that he had posted mobile...and it was his bicycle handlebars...with a hot air balloon in the background.
As I glanced at his pic...it dawned on me...that both of them lived in the Greater Kansas City area...and I thought...do you think...? What are the chances? no...surely not.
So I went and looked a bit closer...and sure enough... Can you believe it...Within a few posts within my stream...was a picture taken of a hot air balloon when on a bike ride...and another picture taken from the hot air balloon of the countryside...that almost certainly contains the bicyclist. Wow... seven Degrees of Separation? I think not.
I'm sure this takes place in Big cities and at events all the time...but I thought it was pretty cool...and completely underlines the statistic that I read recently about 4% of all photos ever taken in the history of man...being uploaded to FB. I believe it...and that number is only going to increase. According to some statistics 10% of all the pictures taken in the history of photography have been taken in the last 2 years. If those are both true... FB will house 50% of all pictures in no time at all.
2 comments:
Very cool, Mark. Have you confirmed timing of the balloon & bike rides with both parties?
Yes. Well sort of I tagged both parties in each others photos. And later... They connected and talked about it.
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