Are You Anti-Social? Don’t Worry, Facebook Will Let You Know

How social are you? Well, if you have a) a memory and b) a cell phone with a calender app and/or a contact book…chances are you know that answer for yourself.

But how social are you COMPARED TO OTHER PEOPLE? That’s exactly what facebook wants to help you figure out.

Chances are, if you’re behind a screen right now, your social life may not be in the best shape…Take the Social Life Audit – a new Facebook app that scans your photos and check-ins using facial recognition, mood analysis, and BlackBook’s database of bars, restaurants and nightclubs – to see how yours stacks up.

So it assumes that if you’re using Facebook, or a computer at all, that you are being “anti-social?” Wouldn’t that be counter-intuitive to the very nature of “social-media?”

Here’s How The App Works

The app begins by calculating your “crew size” and looks over where you’ve checked in to see if you’re hip with the in crowd.

Player Status FTW!

It moves onto your photos where it really goes to work.

It JUDGES THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU HANG OUT WITH. It can count the average number of people in your photos, how happy they are (including whether or not they “have a nice smile” they are a “buzz kill” or if you partake in a lot of “WTF moments“). It even goes so far to determine what percent of the people in your photos are single, and determine whether you are a player.

And if all that isn’t enough, there is a LEADERBOARD that adds up all the points in your photos, check-ins, and positive activities and posts them to the Social Audit website for everyone to fight one another for social media social supremacy…

Of Note:

The app will post into your news feed that you are using the service, BUT YOU MUST OPT OUT AT THE BEGINNING TO PREVENT IT FROM POSTING ON YOUR WALL. Undoubtedly there’s a slew of other viruses it probably hosts and seeing that it’s sponsored by Ultimat Vodka, it’s safe to assume I can expect e-mails from liquor companies every thursday night from here to eternity.

You can choose to share your results at the end if you so choose…but considering that the test is all but pointless, aside from the fact you get to see a bot make fun of your friends, you might want to keep this one to yourself.

At the very least it’s yet another demonstration showing off how creepy Facebook has become. Something we can certainly look forward to for years to come.

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