{"id":62410,"date":"2016-07-11T17:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/2016\/07\/11\/une-revolution-sociale-est-en-cours\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:13:34","slug":"a-social-revolution-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2016\/07\/11\/a-social-revolution-is-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"A social revolution is underway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A global phenomenon, Pok\u00e9mon GO is everywhere on social media, traditional media and&#8230; on the streets.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note: This article is an automated translation. For the original article, click on Fran\u00e7ais in the menu.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fleoninsavard%2Fposts%2F1743383745947617&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"186\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The beauty of the game is that, despite being online, people have to travel to the real world to catch Pok\u00e9mon, battle in arenas, etc. From then on, people start to gather near important points and, by force of circumstance, to interact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pokemon-03.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The phenomeno <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/moarnial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOARNial<\/a> describes isn&#8217;t a unique experience; this type of testimony can be found all over the internet. Having been involved in Facebook groups for a long time, I&#8217;ve never seen so many groups created at the same time. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/HUBpokemon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hub<\/a>&#8216;s example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we talk about getting outside, we&#8217;re often talking about physical exercise:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pokemon-02.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I walk 1 to 2 hours a day just for my commute, so it&#8217;s nothing new for me, but more and more of my friends are starting to incorporate a minimum 1-hour walk into their morning or evening routines to play Pok\u00e9mon GO. This in itself is a social revolution if it lasts.<\/p>\n<p>I say if it lasts because I wonder if the game will survive the initial enthusiasm and curiosity. I remind you that at one time, almost everyone had a<span style=\"word-spacing: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"word-spacing: normal;\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamagotchi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamagotchi<\/a><span style=\"word-spacing: normal;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this isn&#8217;t just a bubble that will burst in 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>In the financial sector, Nintendo&#8217;s stock has exploded in the last 48 hours, increasing its valuation by<span style=\"text-align: justify; word-spacing: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"text-align: justify; word-spacing: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/branchez-vous.com\/2016\/07\/11\/pokemon-go-fait-bondir-nintendo-en-bourse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7,7 millard USD<\/a><span style=\"text-align: justify; word-spacing: normal;\">. <\/span>I was convinced Pok\u00e9mon GO was going to explode; I should have thought about buying shares.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another example of an unintended social consequence that could have greater repercussions than we think<span style=\"text-align: justify; word-spacing: normal;\">: <\/span><a style=\"text-align: justify; word-spacing: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/pokemon-go-is-secretly-teaching-americans-the-metric-sy-1783459191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon Go Is Secretly Teaching Americans the Metric System<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the fact that I&#8217;m convinced they&#8217;ll reset the accounts upon official release, I&#8217;d love to conduct a participatory social experiment while the phenomenon is still emerging..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global phenomenon, Pok\u00e9mon GO is everywhere on social media, traditional media and&#8230; on the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,207],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-62410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming-blog","category-video-games","tag-blog-en","category-205","category-207","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62419,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62410\/revisions\/62419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}