Flash Mobs Pop Onto the Scene
February 11, 2009
Imagine thousands of people gathering together all around the world for a matter of minutes to do something bizarre like dance or even have a pillow fight in the streets. Each meeting is a different theme and city, but the locations are packed with so many people, on-lookers claim that they cannot even see the floor. These “flash mobs” were created in a flash, literally. Created by Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harpers Magazine in May 2003, the origin of these mobs were unknown until the March 2006 edition of Harpers Magazine. Although only over a hundred people attended that first event at a rug store in Macy’s, the craze quickly caught on and spread across the U.S.A., Europe, Australia, and Singapore. Read more
