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Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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Free Version Notification Email: X is now single. Paid Version Notification Email (with semantic analysis!): X is now single. She broke up with her boyfriend because he didn't pay enough attention to her. Lately she has been listening to Arcade Fire and eating cupcakes. Click to phone X now - suggest getting a cupcake together.

'Click here to update your status to talk about how much you like the new Arcade Fire album.'

"Buy the latest Arcade Fire album now." (Amazon affiliate link)

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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post #23

A 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…

I think the strongest factor would be when they increase messaging members of the opposite sex?

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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post #28

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'Click here to update your status to talk about how much you like the new Arcade Fire album.'

"Buy the latest Arcade Fire album now." (Amazon affiliate link)

If you haven't seen it...

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

An amusing reaction to their winnings at the grammys

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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post #23

A 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…

Pretty sure this idea that Facebook can "predict" when people will break up was based on research by Lee Byron and David McCandless of 10,000 Facebook status updates with the terms "break up" or "broken up", presented as a nice graph[1] as part of a TED talk[2].

[1] http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/peak-break-up-tim...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqjQ55tz-U (skip up to 6:30)

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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post #29

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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 bet they will provide you a private one if you've got enough venture capital behind you to cut the cheques... (I hear the Winklevoss twins are lawyering up again)

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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post #28

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'Click here to update your status to talk about how much you like the new Arcade Fire album.'

"Buy the latest Arcade Fire album now." (Amazon affiliate link)

Way way down in the TOS fine print:

"You agree to Creepyest Web Service Ever Pty Ltd sharing your social graph and stalkee selection with our business partners including but not limited to match.com, collegehumor.com, and the NSA"

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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A few days ago, my fiancee and her mom were talking about setting up a nice guy with my fiancee's sister. Unfortunately, said guy is in a relationship. My mother-in-law to be suggested it would be nice to know when the relationship was over (jokingly). I blurted out that I could make something that could do that in a couple of hours. By then, I knew I had to do it. The application was built on Google Appengine, Djang…

Would you be able to use real-time updates for this to avoid polling? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ I'm not sure if it notifies you on friends changes or just the user that authed your app. I assume the latter.

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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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.

Isn't "it's complicated" just Facebook jargon for "unhappily polyamorous"?
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