Collected Item: “Six Foot Seating”
Give your story a title.
Six Foot Seating
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photo, shared with me through Instagram
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
This photo shows a bench that is an advertisement for the dating app Bumble located in Boston’s Seaport district (exact location unknown). The bench has two seats, with space for social distancing between, which goes to show how far people are taking social distancing guidelines. Bumble makes use of participatory content here to engage the public to interact with their advertisements, which may lead to more interest in further interacting with the app. This object has the potential to interest future historians, as it shows how brands used the pandemic as ways of advertising. It also shows the ways in which not only we changed, but the physical objects around us changed to adapt to the pandemic.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#Dating, #Relationships, #Advertising, #Bumble, #Boston, #SocialDistancing, #DatingInPandemic, #Suffolk, #HST241
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Omar Rodriguez
Give this story a date.
2020-12-08