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"Most plants require sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to survive.  We've found one that requires Facebook fans and wall posts.\nMeet Eater is a \"real garden that feeds on social interaction.\"  It is an experiment in human interaction and design, focused on rebuilding the connection between human being and plants.\nHere's how it works, according to its creator:\n\"Meet Eater is rigged up with a system to register physical contact and social media interaction.  Watering is triggered by human contact and nutrients are delivered when you start hanging out with it on Facebook. Of course the novelty of such a project could draw more attention than is desired. If the plant becomes over loved it will call for quiet time via the Facebook page, just as you or I would.\"\nTechnically, this garden (which you can visit at The Edge in the State Library of Queensland) requires food, water and nutrients, just like any other plant.  However, those elements entirely depend on people becoming Facebook fans of Meet Eater and talking to the garden via Facebook wall posts.  Meet Eater even replies to wall posts with its own distinctive (and definitely human) voice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Eater is a project by designer Bashkim Isai as part of a course at the University of Queensland, Australia.  The experiment has been running for 72 days and has accumulated more than 1,200 fans in that time.\nWe're thrilled by the novelty of this social media experiment.  It utilizes the best elements of social media \u2014 interaction, conversation, connection \u2014 to make us rethink how we interact with the world.  We don't think we're making a stretch by saying that our society takes for granted the important role plants have in our ecosystem.  Meet Eater takes concepts such as the tweeting plant to a new and more personal level.\nWhat do you think of the Meet Eater project?  How do you think social media affects our perception of the ecosystem around us?\n[via All Facebook]\nImages courtesy of The University of Queensland"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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