cripes does anybody remember Google People
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cripes does anybody remember Google People— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
it existed for like fifteen minutes between Orkut but before Google+, and had the wildest features like your profile image had to be smiling. "No, wider," it would say. Sometimes it would just accept a frowning image and modify it to be smiling— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
Sometimes it would fill in personal details automatically? Hair colour, occupation. The weirdest one was date of birth because it was always really close to being accurate, but off by a few days— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
and suggest familial relationships with other users you'd never heard of before. "We think this person: is your father"— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
they did this thing where if you gave it access to your emails it would scan them and figure out which of your contacts had died, and then silently create profiles for themthese...
cripes does anybody remember Google People— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
it existed for like fifteen minutes between Orkut but before Google+, and had the wildest features like your profile image had to be smiling. "No, wider," it would say. Sometimes it would just accept a frowning image and modify it to be smiling— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
Sometimes it would fill in personal details automatically? Hair colour, occupation. The weirdest one was date of birth because it was always really close to being accurate, but off by a few days— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
and suggest familial relationships with other users you'd never heard of before. "We think this person: is your father"— qntm (@qntm) 21 August 2019
they did this thing where if you gave it access to your emails it would scan them and figure out which of your contacts had died, and then silently create profiles for themthese...
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