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Kudos 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.
You could take the code base you have written and probably adjust just a few lines of code to turn it into an app that tells you when a friend dumps you on Facebook. This is actually what I thought you had built, and for me would be even more useful + interesting. (Or, open source the code and let someone else do it)
It's cool to support gay people and all, but if I'm straight I shouldn't have to look at all the dudes when I'm clicking who I'm interested in.
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"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
I just pulled up their suburbs song on youtube and now I'm even more at a loss. It's a mad world out there, man.
I'm a big metalhead though. That's my excuse. It'd be cool if metal could win album of the year! ...for technical prowess. It's pretty hard to beat metal in that respect - but it does depend on the subgenre of metal. Jazz is the only other genre that comes close.
David Weekly did this for MySpace a while back. It was called SingeStat.us: http://techcrunch.com/2006/06/05/find-out-when-your-friends-...
One of the problems with this from a social perspective is that people lie about their relationship status on facebook.
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Isn't "it's complicated" just Facebook jargon for "unhappily polyamorous"?
I've also seen it used to mean "I'm still sleeping with this person but don't want anyone to think he's my boyfriend." Fucknemeses would also seem to be an appropriate use-case.
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)
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-knows-that-your-relation...
"Zuckerberg sometimes amused himself by conducting experiments ... he studied who was looking which profiles, who your friends were friends with, and who was newly single, among other indicators..."
This app is useless until Felicia Day, Scarlett Johansson or Jenna Fischer accept my friend requests.
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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."