Here we go again with crazy things you can do on Facebook. Honda unleashed a “NaughtyOrNice-a-tron” Facebook App recently so now you can see whether or not you should expect coal underneath the Christmas tree in less than two weeks.
This app, once downloaded, will analyze a Facebook user’s activity on the site in the past year, paying most attention to status updates. They mainly look at the language with which you type (not like Italian or English, but whether or not you’re vulgar) and also key behaviors of the targeted user (that’s you).
The ‘naughty or nice’ question is one of the biggest surrounding this time of year. Honda played right into the world’s largest social networking site to promote their message of “unbridled holiday happiness” with their end-of-year sales event campaign, “Happy Honda Days.” Since they want the world to be a happy place, it makes sense that they would start by determining who all the naughty people are, and what better way is there to find 90% of the world, except Facebook?
It’s actually a pretty cool development in my opinion. When you start using the app, it thoroughly scans everything you’ve done on Facebook and codes them as either ‘naughty’ or ‘nice.’ The naughty things are shown covered in red, and nice is, well what do you think? Green. So you have the Christmas spirit all over this app.
Once the app is done scanning, it gives you a little spreadsheet. It tells you in meter form going from red to green how naughty or nice you are. It will also rate your ‘likes’ and event invitation acceptances on the naughty or nice scale. Lastly, it gives you your friends’ results as well as the opportunity to send the app to your friends. You have the option of posting your results on your wall.
Now that we know what exactly this new app is, let’s discuss. When December rolls around, who remembers what we did in February or even in July? We can give you large events and some memories, but we can’t tell you what we ate for breakfast, what test we didn’t want to take or who we even went out with the night before.
We can’t tell you those things, but Facebook can. Guaranteed you recap your daily and nightly activities with your friends online. That is what is most primarily what people use Facebook for – to make jokes, to inform the world what they just did/are doing/will do.
So we can say thank you to both Honda and Facebook for collectively giving us a stroll down memory lane as well as a way to determine how much we suck, or don’t suck if you happen to get a nice ranking.
The thing that makes ‘nice’ a little harder to get is the app considers texts from last night and FMLs to generally be naughty. This is something we can probably agree with the app on…but it sucks becuase we didn’t originate the message we just copied and pasted it from the other sites, which in turn still lowers our nice ranking. Bummer.
So when I used the app, I have to admit it’s a little nerve racking, waiting for your results. Yet it was definitely worth it…especially because I’ve been dubbed as ‘nice’ this year on Facebook. Yay!
