Good way to jump the queue. Would work well with facial recognition on beauty. Another idea: an unfriend notifier. (like with a twitter unfollow notifier)
Here's a Greasemonkey script for unfriend notifications.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
That does sound damned cool, but would facebook give you access to that information?
Facebook isn't going to provide "probabilityOfBreakUp" in their API, but you might be able to build a factor model from accessible information; for instance, number of photos in which a couple are both tagged might be a statistically significant factor.
I think the most significant criteria is how many times one looks at their profile. Facebook has always been very adamant about technically disallowing this for apps.
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#33It looks the the auth breaks if your profile doesn't have certain expected fields accessible (gender?).
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#34A while back, I heard that Facebook can predict when two people in a relationship are about to break up, based on statistical patterns in account activity prior to break-ups. I'm not familiar with the Facebook APIs or what sort of account activity is statistically significant, but that would be a cool app that's very similar to this. Log in with Facebook, and show which of your in-a-relationship friends has the highe…
That does sound damned cool, but would facebook give you access to that information?
I think that profile viewing habits would play the biggest role, which only FB has access to.
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#35I'm thinking the app would have to store the present status on its server in order to know of a status change. But isn't storing profile data server-side a violation of FB TOS?
You can store data for up to 24 hours, so all you have to do is look for a change on two consecutive days.
Edit: That was the old policy, the new one lets you store it forever as long as you try to keep it up to date.
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#36I'm thinking the app would have to store the present status on its server in order to know of a status change. But isn't storing profile data server-side a violation of FB TOS?
You can store data for up to 24 hours, so all you have to do is look for a change on two consecutive days. Edit: That was the old policy, the new one lets you store it forever as long as you try to keep it up to date.
So essentially it is ok to store data infinitely as long as you are updating it every 24hrs?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook isn't going to provide "probabilityOfBreakUp" in their API, but you might be able to build a factor model from accessible information; for instance, number of photos in which a couple are both tagged might be a statistically significant factor.
I think the most significant criteria is how many times one looks at their profile. Facebook has always been very adamant about technically disallowing this for apps.
...no doubt there will be multiple factors used to conclude this kind of information.
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#38Kudos for releasing the app! IMHO, Unless you're married, don't put your relationship status on FB. Set it as hidden, or say nothing. When things change, and in life they do... the people from whom you don't want to hear are the first to notice and / or comment on it.
I even joined the group "I have never had sex with a goat" just so I could leave it at the same time I set my relationship status from "single" to undisclosed. Unfortunately, they got rid of that feature where it would broadcast to all of your friends that you've left a group...
Undisclosed? "It's complicated" seems more appropriate in that case.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can store data for up to 24 hours, so all you have to do is look for a change on two consecutive days. Edit: That was the old policy, the new one lets you store it forever as long as you try to keep it up to date.
So essentially it is ok to store data infinitely as long as you are updating it every 24hrs?
Er wait, that was an old policy. Here's the new one:
"You may cache data you receive through use of the Facebook API in order to improve your application’s user experience, but you should try to keep the data up to date. This permission does not give you any rights to such data."
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook isn't going to provide "probabilityOfBreakUp" in their API, but you might be able to build a factor model from accessible information; for instance, number of photos in which a couple are both tagged might be a statistically significant factor.
I think the most significant criteria is how many times one looks at their profile. Facebook has always been very adamant about technically disallowing this for apps.
No, the most significant criteria will be how many times one looks at somebody else's profile. IMs and messages would also be quite significant. But that's even less likely to get released.