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Salesforce, but for Dating

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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

#12

I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.

I remember moaning about twitter reducing the number of characters people sent, and then yo! came out, and it was down to a single bit of data. That made me think 'what would even lower information content messages look like in a social network, perhaps half a bit or even less?'. I figured that a half bit of data would be where a social network sent some sort of hello message automatically with the same frequency the human user sent one manually, so given a message, it'd be 50/50 whether it was sent automatically or manually. Although I got to it theoretically, in the end, I thought it could be pretty useful practically, as a way of sparking conversations again when you haven't spoken to someone in a while, etc.

Maybe combined with ChatGPT we could even make those automatic getting-back-in-touch messages indistinguishable from the manual ones.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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post #3

Sorry I cringed. Hoping this is a joke.

Don't you have a pipeline with girls you're going to cold-call, and a dating life manager that breathes down your neck when you haven't taken at least 10 girls out this month?

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

#17

I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.

I remember moaning about twitter reducing the number of characters people sent, and then yo! came out, and it was down to a single bit of data. That made me think 'what would even lower information content messages look like in a social network, perhaps half a bit or even less?'. I figured that a half bit of data would be where a social network sent some sort of hello message automatically with the same frequency the…

> Half a bit of data

I’ve never heard that idea before and I love it.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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post #14
post #3

Sorry I cringed. Hoping this is a joke.

Don't you have a pipeline with girls you're going to cold-call, and a dating life manager that breathes down your neck when you haven't taken at least 10 girls out this month?

I don't date girls. I only date women.
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