I’m not sure what it is about joinees, but many of us have so-called “stupid boy projects” that we like to pursue. My mullet project, for example. Maybe we’re all easily bored or perhaps the idea of a pointless but fun mission appeals to the sort of folk who would willingly join a random stranger. It’s not creative genius, that’s for sure – certainly not on my part.
Anyway, two joinees I know from Luton, Ben and Paul, have decided to try and find one person in every country in the world – they’re calling their project One Big Friendly World. They roped me in as their first country, Scotland, and they’re now at over 20, with places including the USA, Estonia and Tanzania so far recruited.
Ben and Paul have set up a blog and there’s apparently a forum to come, but I’m still not entirely sure what it’s all about, so it was a mixture of trust, boredom and the joinee instinct for the unknown that made me sign up. “Our aims are simple”, they tell me: “to gather people from each country of the world and become friends, creating One Big Friendly World”. Well, that all sounds innocent enough.
I hope.
