Pplkpr Is a New App That Tells You Who You Should Befriend
Do you generally make bad decisions? Are you terrible at choosing your friends? Are you often unable to tell if you like someone or if that person annoys you? Well, Lauren McCarthy is trying to offer you a lifeline with a new app called Pplkpr which is designed to help you quantify your relations and find out which ones you need to enrich or terminate.
Pplkpr (people keeper if you didn't get the "abbreviation") is an iOS app that gathers data about your interactions with your friends and "auto-manages" your relationships. Basically, the application works with a GPS monitor to know when you are coming and going and with a heart rate monitor to measure the subtle changes in the rhythm of your heart beats. Those subtle changes allow the Pplkpr to determine your emotional response to each person you interact with. Then the app asks you for some additional self-reporting, correlates the data and determines who should be automatically-scheduled in your life and who should be removed from it.
Pplkpr is based on a study that spanned across the length of an entire week in which eight students used the app to determine how they actually felt about the people around them. According to developers Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, figuring out how you really a feel about people or events in your real-life is much more difficult than doing it online and this is where Pplkpr comes in. One of the subjects who took part in the experiment even stated that "using the app as a justification for not seeing someone is a lot more definitive than just saying <I'm uncomfortable>".
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If you are interested, Pplkpr is free and can be found on iTunes (here). To be totally honest, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that we need a machine to tell us how to feel.
