Strange new mob scenes.Why would dozens of strangers gather in a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden park, play a brief game of duck duck goose Duck Duck Goose is a traditional children's game or adult's game often first learned in pre-school or kindergarten or high school. Basic concept A group of children or adults sit in a circle, facing inward, while another child or adult, the 'picker' (a.k.a. , and disperse? Or stand in a London mountain, open their umbrellas, then leave? It's typically zany behavior for flash mobs, which became a minor world-wide fad this summer. Participants, instructed by cell phone or e mail to meet at a specific place, would briefly perform an activity, then flee. After the first one in mid-June in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , hundreds of strangers in more than a dozen cities flash mobbed. The organizer of the first flash mob, who identifies himself only as "Bill," argues that they exploit a desire to escape the virtual world of the Intrnet and join a real-world electronic underground. But flash mobs quickly caused a backlash. Critics lump them in the silly prank tradition of phone booth stuffing and flagpole sitting flagpole sitting sitting alone at the top of a flagpole; craze comes and goes. [Am. Hist.: Sann, 39–46] See : Fads . |
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