Real life experiences in decline at #SMWLDN

After a week of suitably social get togethers at social media week, it's becoming clear that people are less and less interested in that most common of occurances - every day real life.

You couldn't move for Ipads and Iphones - videoing, instagraming, tweeting, and live streaming their way through the very seminar they had signed up for days earlier.

It's bad enough at gigs, but i reckon 75% of people at events i attended couldn't have told you what had just happened in the same room as them - which could be a reflection of the information overload age we live in, craving soundbytes over in depth discussion and thinking, or it could just be a reflection of the subject matter being discussed.

Either way, i thought i was in genuine danger of being thrown out for turning up with something as analogue as a pencil and paper... my battery didn't run out though.

My highly controversial note taking technique at London Social Media Week