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The user experience from the friend's perspective is ... getting an unsolicited chat message from a bot, with no way to know who sent it on their behalf, or wha

by jawns 3y ago

The user experience from the friend's perspective is ... getting an unsolicited chat message from a bot, with no way to know who sent it on their behalf, or what will be done with the information provided? I'm guessing conversion rates will be fairly low.

umgefahren 3y ago
Yes it actually is. I was in the closed beta and all friends that got the message where either suspicious of it, annoyed or didn’t react. I think there is little to none that can be done, unless a lot of people use it and then it becomes somewhat annoying because you’d have to answer those things all the time. I think the best application would be Secret Santa. It’s a cool idea though and the app is really pretty.
- barbazoo 3y ago
  How boring that would be though. Everyone tells the bot what they want and then people go and buy the things. Doesn't get anymore stupid consumerist than that.
  - chankstein38 3y ago
    Right? As much as big retail corps have ruined the season, the reason I love it is the personal connections, time with family, and cozy vibes of the decorations. Gifts are part of that but the whole point of gifting is that moment of "Hey I was thinking about you and know you liked this thing" and them being happy someone knew them well enough to pick out a great gift. The idea of some AI messaging my friends to anonymously ask them what they want for christmas is gross. This is effectively a more complicated Amazon Wishlist for each person.
barbazoo 3y ago
> Find out what your friends want without killing the surprise. And once you participate once, the surprise will definitely be killed because at that point it'll be clear someone is gifting to you what you just told the computer.
- chankstein38 3y ago
  And your friend will probably be like "Oh I wondered why I was getting spam texts... please don't give my number to random companies again."

by jawns 3y ago

umgefahren 3y ago

Yes it actually is. I was in the closed beta and all friends that got the message where either suspicious of it, annoyed or didn’t react. I think there is little to none that can be done, unless a lot of people use it and then it becomes somewhat annoying because you’d have to answer those things all the time. I think the best application would be Secret Santa. It’s a cool idea though and the app is really pretty.

barbazoo 3y ago
How boring that would be though. Everyone tells the bot what they want and then people go and buy the things. Doesn't get anymore stupid consumerist than that.
- chankstein38 3y ago
  Right? As much as big retail corps have ruined the season, the reason I love it is the personal connections, time with family, and cozy vibes of the decorations. Gifts are part of that but the whole point of gifting is that moment of "Hey I was thinking about you and know you liked this thing" and them being happy someone knew them well enough to pick out a great gift. The idea of some AI messaging my friends to anonymously ask them what they want for christmas is gross. This is effectively a more complicated Amazon Wishlist for each person.

barbazoo 3y ago

> Find out what your friends want without killing the surprise. And once you participate once, the surprise will definitely be killed because at that point it'll be clear someone is gifting to you what you just told the computer.

chankstein38 3y ago
And your friend will probably be like "Oh I wondered why I was getting spam texts... please don't give my number to random companies again."