cripes does anybody remember Google People
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nobody ever figured the follower system out. you couldn't "follow" other people, but apparently other people could "watch" you? but nobody ever found the "watch" button
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everybody had like a dozen people "watching" them, all complete strangers with huge grinning profile pictures. There was always this one guy with the WEIRDEST face After a while I realised that people were just using that face as their profile picture, like an in-joke
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Google People would constantly highlight blank areas on your photos like there was a person there and say "Someone you know?"
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they shut it down after like six months and the reason was something like they had "found Them"
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it made all these bizarre choices which I didn't even pick up on until later. I don't generally use emoji so it took me about two months to realise that nobody ever used a smiling emoji. because it didn't have a smiling emoji sad, tearful, angry, etc., not one smiling face
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a while after "guessing" your birth date it would "guess" your death date, which was a bit wild, but after comparing notes we worked out that for most people it was just guessing the same date, or a few weeks or months after
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