People in the twenty first century are living in a heartless society where people are indifferent about their neighbors. However, they still have a desire to share their stories and be empathized; unfortunately, there is no place for them to talk about their ideas in a truthful way.
Hansel and Gretel now provides a platform where people can share their stories and get encouraged when they are under stress. People can be candid about their thoughts and emotions in an open space where anonymity is secured. In addition, through creating empahty among local community, people can become intimate by understanding each other. Overall, Hansel and Gretel focuses on changing meaningless space into a precious place to each member of community. Now if you want to hear my story, follow my bread!
Are you well-interacting with friends next door in dorm?
Funding Goal : $7,000
Introduction
Hansel and Gretel dropped crumbs of their bread, which marked their path. I just brought the idea of making traces with bread. Making trace (where they were, where they passed) is very normal in online life. Such as in Facebook or Twitter, people leave posts to communicate with others. It could be their friends or strangers who just met in online. However, as the dependence of internet SNS increases, the external outline relationships (especially local communities) are getting smaller and disappearing. For example, in Korea, most people live in their large complex apartments. If you are one of them, then, how many of you know and interact with your neighbors? I’m sure there would not be many people saying more than 5. We need to pay attention to our nearby people. Listening what they are saying, watching where they are heading is important in this busy, desolate world. Taking care is not a big thing. It can be overcome with sharing thoughts with people nearby who have been raised in a same cultural context and who have similar ideas. So, what I am going to do with Hansel and Gretel idea is that I will make a platform that enables local community people to interact with each other. This platform will be provided with app format so that people can access anytime, anywhere. I will introduce the specific progress how it works.
Simply, since this is one of the SNS, the interaction tool will be texts. By registering the posts, the posts only remain on the spot where they registered. Of course, they can see their own post anywhere but, for the other people they have to be at the spot to see the posts. Since the interaction is only held in the certain place, local people who live within the area are able to see others’ posts easily. So the progress is like this.
The procedure
1.Someone posts their own story. It could be about blaming their boss, their daily story, or their worries.
2. When they upload their post, the post locates on the place where they write.
3. People near the place will find the posts and write comments to it.
(To prevent people’s low participation interacting with others such as replying, there is a condition that the text people can use for their own story is limited. For the more text, they have to write comments to others’ posts. Otherwise, they have no text to use.)
Visual Form
As I constructed the idea with Hansel and Gretel story, I wanted to use a loaf of bread as my visual item. So, the text will be visualized as a loaf of bread. As a user writes more texts, the amount of bread would reduce as I mentioned the condition. So, making comment can be visualized as picking up the crumbs other people left.
Write your story!
As you write story, the amount of bread keeps smaller.
You have to write comments to get bread.
Technology
GPS & Augmented reality to show the location of crumbs people left.
Value
The most core value of this app is consolation. We can still get cheered up through many current SNS but, in many situations, since the SNS is too open, people get afraid of telling their stories. People need a place or platform where they can be relaxed and tell their hardness and worries. Yes, they can talk it in internet. However, in internet, there are too many unknown people who even felt like unreal. I wanted to give people where they can freely say their thoughts and get involved into community. I thought local living community can be helpful to those people who are having hard time. Somewhat, they have similar ideas and interests so that they can understand each other much efficiently. Also, in the stance of people who are leaving their message, the comments received from local people might be much more encouraging. In this sense, this app will make big contributions. Hopefully, I believe this will help many lonely people to get over their sadness and share their thoughts with next door people.
Not only does this app let people share their emotion, but also it helps people to get informations. For example if someone makes a useful tip using this app in front of elevator where all the people stand. The whole community can notice it without making the lobby dirty.
These two ideas are only examples. I believe the potential usage and influence of this app is tremendous. This little social network service will make Korea far healthier.
