how neurotic R U? xxx
You can tell a lot about someone by how and what they txt. What percentage of your txts say "sorry", "I can't", "oops" or "be late" ?
Do you get friends who only ever SMS you to ask for stuff? Or what about nice ones who text you out the blue to ask how you're feeling? Or who do you always cancel on, and who you send the most X's to?
I just had this idea for an application which scans all your text messages, and does two things:
1. By looking at how many times you use phrases and words like "I'm so", "thanks", "can you", "help", "disaster" and so on, it will give you a personality test, something like this one, (taken from a Facebook questionairre-based personality test):
It could also give you charts and graphs of how miserable or elated you've been over time, based on how many sad or happy faces you've used, or how many exclamation points you use.
2. It would also tell you loads about your relationships with your contacts - it would tell you who your emotional dumping ground is, who always says nice things to you and who texts you loads and whom you never reply to.
It could display all in this in a cool visual way, like a big graphy chart thing, or in a very cutesy neoprint way with halos, devil horns, to appeal to younger audiences.
some neoprints - those Japanese photo booths for kids that print cute stickers of you and your friends
For the technically minded amongst you, you could do in a few ways
* a Java app that you download to your mobile phone
* for mobile operators with web services that let users see their call and text data, it could sit on the web portal
* it could also work for email - be a plug in for Outlook express, or scrape of your gmail, or even be a Facebook widget, seeing who's wall you post on, and what you say, and displaying a readout on your profile
It would get really interesting if the data was all mashed together from different users - it could tell you what the difference in texting habits across nations was, or who the most apologetic person in the UK was!
I think this is a nice idea because it appeals to both typical gender stereotypes:
* geeky boys like anything that crunches numbers and shows them as stats and graphs of things, and visual maps
* girls love doing quizzes about personalities and especially about the relationships between their friends
(I know these are awful stereotypes, but if you look at a lot of MySpace pages and blogs you find lots of evidence that these are kinds of content that are more prevalent to each gender).
If anyone wants to build it give me a shout!
Do you get friends who only ever SMS you to ask for stuff? Or what about nice ones who text you out the blue to ask how you're feeling? Or who do you always cancel on, and who you send the most X's to?
I just had this idea for an application which scans all your text messages, and does two things:
1. By looking at how many times you use phrases and words like "I'm so", "thanks", "can you", "help", "disaster" and so on, it will give you a personality test, something like this one, (taken from a Facebook questionairre-based personality test):
It could also give you charts and graphs of how miserable or elated you've been over time, based on how many sad or happy faces you've used, or how many exclamation points you use.
2. It would also tell you loads about your relationships with your contacts - it would tell you who your emotional dumping ground is, who always says nice things to you and who texts you loads and whom you never reply to.
It could display all in this in a cool visual way, like a big graphy chart thing, or in a very cutesy neoprint way with halos, devil horns, to appeal to younger audiences.
some neoprints - those Japanese photo booths for kids that print cute stickers of you and your friends
For the technically minded amongst you, you could do in a few ways
* a Java app that you download to your mobile phone
* for mobile operators with web services that let users see their call and text data, it could sit on the web portal
* it could also work for email - be a plug in for Outlook express, or scrape of your gmail, or even be a Facebook widget, seeing who's wall you post on, and what you say, and displaying a readout on your profile
It would get really interesting if the data was all mashed together from different users - it could tell you what the difference in texting habits across nations was, or who the most apologetic person in the UK was!
I think this is a nice idea because it appeals to both typical gender stereotypes:
* geeky boys like anything that crunches numbers and shows them as stats and graphs of things, and visual maps
* girls love doing quizzes about personalities and especially about the relationships between their friends
(I know these are awful stereotypes, but if you look at a lot of MySpace pages and blogs you find lots of evidence that these are kinds of content that are more prevalent to each gender).
If anyone wants to build it give me a shout!
4 Comments:
your phone sounds scarily like a phone that would scan any incoming texts or calls from friends and then give you its recommendations of who to call next...
semantic phone anyone?
sorry couldnt make your leaving drinks mate, lets defo meet up for a beer sometime soon!
gen
Tagging this 'negativefeedbackloops' for personal reasons.
Hi Mate. This makes me think that I'm up for psycho analysis from my twitters. I must remember not to TUI (texting under the influence) from hereon unless of course its too late :)
charles - I thought you you were saying that you were texting under the influence of heroin, instead of "here on"!
Phones should have an 8 hour block that is enabled by the user when he realises that he is drunk.
This bars the phone for 8 hours from calling certain numbers like ex's, bosses, and also numbers in foreign countries.
The latter is a precaution in case you lose your phone when drunk and the cloackroom guy uses it to call all his mates in very far away places, as has happened to me numerous times.
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