这款App可以帮你辨认你和哪个朋友在一起最开心

    近日，一款医疗健身应用向用户承诺，可以分辨哪些人才是值得深交的朋友，并据此安排你的社交活动。

    这款名为Pplkpr的应用与一块可测量用户心率的智能手表连接，以判断你在和其他人打交道时有什么样的情感反应。通过结合使用者手动录入的情感反应和人际往来信息，该应用告诉你各类朋友可不可交。

    对让你有负面情感反应的联系人，该应用会自动屏蔽，同时会自动为你安排社交活动，与那些会让你产生正面反应的联系人往来。

    听起来是不是匪夷所思？那就是它存在的意义。

    该应用的发明者劳伦·麦卡锡和凯尔·麦克唐纳都是艺术家。他们希望“探究数据量化的生活对人际关系有何影响。”二人在共同成立的网站上写道，他们“试图通过这种应用促使人们认真思考这种未来前景，希望看到大家对想要或不想要的功能畅所欲言”。

    以上只是麦卡锡和麦克唐纳的意图，但不是所有用户都只是把它当成一次思维实验。据美国财经新闻频道CNBC报道，该应用的下载量超过了7万次。在App Store，用户纷纷给予它真诚的评价。实际上，多数人提到的一种意见是，这款应用不能对那些不在Facebook联系表上的朋友做自动分析。（财富中文网）

    翻译：Pessy

    校对：詹妮

    A health and fitness app promises to tell users which friends are worth keeping, scheduling their social calendars accordingly.

    The app, called Pplkpr, connects to a smartwatch to measure users’ heart rates to determine their emotional response to people they’re interacting with. Combined with manually-entered emotional responses and information about the user’s comings and goings, the app can tell the user the general utility of his or her friends.

    Those contacts who make the user feel negatively will be automatically blocked, while the app automatically schedules social engagements with positive influencers.

    Sound scary? That’s the point.

    The app’s creators, Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, are artists who want to “explore the implications of quantified living for relationships.” McCarthy and McDonald wrote on their website that they “hope that seeing and trying the app will enable people to think critically about this future and speak out about what we do and don’t want to manifest.”

    But despite McCarthy and McDonald’s intentions, the app might not just be a thought experiment for everyone. It’s been downloaded more than 70,000 times, according to CNBC, and the reviews in the App Store are sincere. In fact, one of the most common complaints is that users’ friends who aren’t on Facebook can’t be auto-analyzed.