As I sat alone in my room daydreaming about the most recent of my crushes, I finally summoned up the courage to message her on Facebook. With great trepidation (and bravery, I might add), my fingers inched slowly towards my MacBook track pad and navigated to my Facebook account–only to find, with great sadness, that she was not logged on.
I was determined to right this grievous wrong. If only there were a way for me to load my friends' Facebook usage patterns, so I would know when they would most likely be online! That such an app did not yet exist was greatly disappointing, and such a vast, gaping void in our technological landscape has undoubtedly cost many a lovestruck college student countless seconds of anguish.
When this Chrome application is open when your Facebook page is open as well, Triends stores data for each of your online friends. You can pull up a detailed week-oriented heat map for each friend's Facebook activity, showing when they're most likely to be online. Furthermore, you can specify "crushes" to keep a special eye on. Whenever any of these special "crushes" log onto Facebook, you will get a YO sent to your phone courtesy of the YO application!
Of course, there are many possible uses for this application. For example, usage patterns are helpful for those trying to time their social media posts for maximum effectiveness, whether for marketing or to jump up several rungs in the high school social ladder. Regardless, for teens and college students who have grown up waiting for their friends to get on the internet after school, this application will certainly see some kind of use.
But surely such trivial concerns ultimately pales in the face of true love, the proliferation of which this application will no doubt catalyze upon its release.
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