Over the weekend I briefly considered writing a FaceBot to take the reins of my completely-neglected FaceBook account. I have no interest in logging in and grappling with my acquaintances’ neverending lycanthropic demands. But it shouldn’t be too hard to write a script that does, thereby proving that I exist as a social entity. For an extra layer of authenticity the bot would watch the RSS coming out of Google News and periodically create a new group with a title like “WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU Musharraf Declares Martial Law”.
The possibilities were endless. But then I remembered that I’m supposed to be doing a million other things, several of them arguably more important.
Besides, I’m growing convinced that Flickr’s already implemented this sort of breakthrough technology. Check out these comments, all of which I’ve received in the last week:
deadhorsela says:
Cute!
You should submit to this contest for viking costumes,
www.cwtv.com/upload/file/ snickers-cwnow-halloween-contest
Kotie Bear says:
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Special Men: who cook for you, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
And my personal favorite:
filterless2006 says:
Hallo, ich bin der Administrator der Gruppe The Beauty of a smoking Woman, und wir freuen uns, Ihr Foto unserer Gruppe hinzuzufügen.
They even built support for internationalization!
(Wolfson, your fight is with Babelfish, not me)
No, my fight is with you.