PicnicMob is a social experiment of sorts, where the idea is to get a large group of people together in one city and have an online picnic

PicnicMob is a social experiment of sorts, where the idea is to get a large group of people together in one city and have an online picnic.

By figuring out your interests, the team behind PicnicMob will know where to seat you at this giant picnic in the sky (well, on the web–same difference). So you’ll get to sit by people that you’ll find most interesting, and vice versa. Meet others in your area and maybe find someone new in the offline world. There are 30 questions for you to fill out. They seem mostly nonsensical, but they’re targeted to sift out the information needed for the purpose of this picnic. All that’s needed for your participation in this project is an email address. Once 1000 people have completed the questionnaire, a virtual picnic will be held one Sunday at noon. The current cities supported are Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C. and San Francisco.

PicnicMob insists that none of the data collected will be used for purposes other than matching you up for the virtual picnic. That means no third party research tools, or targeted picnic ads. In the end, this is really an art experiment, and I’m wondering how picnics will enable users to chat with each other, and how they will handle multiple picnics. It could be fun.
More at:http://www.picnicmob.org/