A team of US techies have come up with a new Facebook app that puts together some words from your previous updates and makes a new one so you can share it with your friends.
Finally an app that gives you some time off from constantly trying to keep ahead with status updates. Phew! A new Facebook app is here to save you the time to think of something you can put up on your Wall that depicts your humorous, inspiring and stylish self. We have a team of U.S. techies who developed the "What Would I Say?" app, which works by accessing your previous posts and mixes them all up to put together some words in a sensible manner, at least close to something sensible.
The best thing about the statuses generated by the app is that it sounds just like you, the punctuation, the use of words in your own style, and almost everything.
"Technically speaking," the app's creators told The New Yorker, "it trains a Markov Bot based on mixture model of bigram and unigram probabilities derived from your past post history."
The creators of the app, Pawel Przytycki, Ugne Klibaite, Vicky Yao, Daniel Jiang, Edward Young, Harvey Cheng, and Alex Furger, are all graduate students at Princeton, who planned to get together during the last weekend's Princeton Hackathon. The weekend get-together led to the birth of this fun app.
"We drank a lot of coffee and Red Bull and thought of fun things we could program that we could actually complete in a day and a half," Klibaite explained in an e-mail to New Yorker.
But as the app was built for only fun, it does not violate any of your privacy quotients. The creators reassured its users that the app does not store any personal information; in fact, they "don't even have a database!"
"All computations are done client side, so only your browser ever sees your post history."
You can try generating a few statuses of your own, not necessary that you have to post it on your Wall unless you want to. Click here and try the app, it's something different than the usual social media apps.
