Show HN: Monitor your friends Facebook online status and activity

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by kiosan • 13 years ago

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samuellevy• 13 years ago

That seems... disturbing. What are the practical applications of this outside of stalking?

kiosan• 13 years ago

This is experimental side project. I am looking for feedback and ideas on how this can be used practically.

I see few applications:

- you can know who is most active from your network

- it is possible to calculate power index for each of your friends

- it is possible to measure social impact made by friends by collecting their activity also

- it just interesting what open social api can show about users activity. you can see when friends wake up or go to bed.

hipsters_unite2• 13 years ago

This is unbelievably creepy, most of all the 'free trial' part - how is this going to be monetized? Who would pay? Why?

goutmaximum• 13 years ago

Your boss, that added you on Facebook. To check how much you are slacking!

hipsters_unite2• 13 years ago

That's why you use IRC :)

antocv• 13 years ago

This is awesome!

Would be super cool to have this as browser extension and then let users easily copy and paste the reports they gather on each others walls or as status updates.

Destroy facebook! This would make users wary of spending too much time on fb, just to know that a report might be generated and shared with others should be enough to make people stop using facebook as much.

Hm, a good idea would be to also share the "activity of my friends" in a public post, perhaps outside of facebook on google+ or similar.

Then ones friends perhaps would be upset and all that and then I would tell them "suck it, remember all the the times you uploaded my picture or revealed my location to facebook?".

This would be a great way to illustrate to people the danges or spewing personal information on and to facebook about ones friends.

ryanthejuggler• 13 years ago

PRISM Jr.! (Or perhaps My First Surveillance?)

Jokes aside, I think there will be some cool infographics to come out of this. Imagine creating a visual friend graph where links are perhaps weighted or colored by the amount of time two people were online at the same time.

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