It's just occurred to me that in Plot 1 at the Real exhibition, the artist Su Blackwell is exhibiting. I've seen Su's work in Kingston's Rose Theatre, where she developed the set for The Snow Queen, so I thought I'd make a postcard for her with a cut out tree. You can push this out and it stands up. I doubt she'll be very impressed, but it's a nice gesture.
In fact, to be honest, from what I've seen so far of the so called "Real Network" I doubt that they'll even put the card in her plot. So far they've been really slow updating pictures on the site, and plots 1-50 should all have at least one object in them as I've sent them all a postcard, but the site still shows many empty plots. Clearly it would have been embarrassing for the plot owners to have only one postcard from another plot in them, but is it really more embarrassing than having nothing at all? The first postcard I sent to Su isn't in her plot.
It seems that Real have been censoring the posts that come in or (I hope) just misallocating them. I know for one that they put a post intended for plot 25 in my plot, and was only moved because I noticed they had put it in the wrong plot and I know the guy who owns plot 25. I think that they're actually scared of the idea of a network, the idea of people sending post from one to another, and have been blocking post, so in truth this post is not just about writing to Su, but it's another test of the system.
The Real network had the potential to be a really good idea, but has underwhelmed as it's more like Sina_weibo than Twitter, and has thus become a poor example of why one should use Real networks over the virtual.
Where my REAL wall has always reflected the best of virtual social networks in reality, Real seems happy to reflect the more mundane aspects of Real life and has hobbled itself by including the worst parts of virtual social network in reality instead.
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