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About 8 years ago I was jokingly going to write this for guys who were too dumb or lazy or to much of a 20 something to auto write back to girls they met out. M

About 8 years ago I was jokingly going to write this for guys who were too dumb or lazy or to much of a 20 something to auto write back to girls they met out. My girlfriend, future wife was horrified by the idea. The waitresses at the bar were like "Meh... at least he though enough to enter me into the system and he'll remember to talk to me." My wife threatened bloody murder on me as she couldn't trust that I wasn't using it on her... and now google wants to do it on a facebook level, eg society wide. Well this will be worth a good laugh and cry with my wife. [Edit: spelling, clarification]

ggggtez 10y ago
"these darned kids with their doing of thing that I don't like".
- grogenaut 10y ago
  Yeah that's was mostly my reaction to my wife's reaction. My thought was it would help people get over the awkward part. This seems like it'd be more endemic to all communications. Then again I remember seeing on the palm pre a feature that showed you notes about the caller on the call screen. Supposed to be for sales people to put stuff like "Wife Jane, 3 kids, Bobby, Sue, Jamal" to read before they picked up.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    > Then again I remember seeing on the palm pre a feature that showed you notes about the caller on the call screen. Is there anything wrong with that? Seems very useful. (How do people think how previous generations handled having many acquaintances and still knowing something personal about each of them? They noted things down, on paper.)
    - grogenaut 10y ago
      It seems fine in the small but immediately imagined sales guy in a smarmy voice saying how's Betty and the kids. That said I thought it was a great idea. Heck at the time I was working with about 80 people from a customer and having it say jake (junior java dev... insurance ingestion...mega insurance inc) would have been great. Oh well my cynical snarky self is conflicted now.
178235235 10y ago
I have had exactly the same idea before when I was trying to get with a bunch of girls. There is this whole "initial" part, where you just talk about garbage. It is so time-consuming and it is all a numbers game. If you could automate it, you could reel in lots of girls with no work.
- grogenaut 10y ago
  I have a friend who did this with meet and craigslist. He just sent a message to every single posting of "Hey". If the person responded then he would actually look at the profile and see if he wanted to send another. He automated it to where he just could click a yes or no link and it would send "want to meet?" This is essentially tinder I guess as people are generally active currently on tinder and just looking to go out. Anyway he would go on dates about 3-5 times a week with new people. He also ran into a lot of crazy. He's always been more of a surface level relationship person. We were talking about this last night and he's just coming to grips with having a real relationship that has settled and become comfortable as opposed to awkward. He's somewhat at a loss. I'm telling him that now is when he can really have fun. But that part is anecdoteal I guess.

ggggtez 10y ago

"these darned kids with their doing of thing that I don't like".

grogenaut 10y ago
Yeah that's was mostly my reaction to my wife's reaction. My thought was it would help people get over the awkward part. This seems like it'd be more endemic to all communications. Then again I remember seeing on the palm pre a feature that showed you notes about the caller on the call screen. Supposed to be for sales people to put stuff like "Wife Jane, 3 kids, Bobby, Sue, Jamal" to read before they picked up.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  > Then again I remember seeing on the palm pre a feature that showed you notes about the caller on the call screen. Is there anything wrong with that? Seems very useful. (How do people think how previous generations handled having many acquaintances and still knowing something personal about each of them? They noted things down, on paper.)
  - grogenaut 10y ago
    It seems fine in the small but immediately imagined sales guy in a smarmy voice saying how's Betty and the kids. That said I thought it was a great idea. Heck at the time I was working with about 80 people from a customer and having it say jake (junior java dev... insurance ingestion...mega insurance inc) would have been great. Oh well my cynical snarky self is conflicted now.

178235235 10y ago

I have had exactly the same idea before when I was trying to get with a bunch of girls. There is this whole "initial" part, where you just talk about garbage. It is so time-consuming and it is all a numbers game. If you could automate it, you could reel in lots of girls with no work.

grogenaut 10y ago
I have a friend who did this with meet and craigslist. He just sent a message to every single posting of "Hey". If the person responded then he would actually look at the profile and see if he wanted to send another. He automated it to where he just could click a yes or no link and it would send "want to meet?" This is essentially tinder I guess as people are generally active currently on tinder and just looking to go out. Anyway he would go on dates about 3-5 times a week with new people. He also ran into a lot of crazy. He's always been more of a surface level relationship person. We were talking about this last night and he's just coming to grips with having a real relationship that has settled and become comfortable as opposed to awkward. He's somewhat at a loss. I'm telling him that now is when he can really have fun. But that part is anecdoteal I guess.