[thegmanifesto]

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Highlight is a subtle way to stalk people you've never met but share common interests with. It shows who has been nearby throughout the day and pulls in Facebook data on them, including where the person works and their pictures. It shows the person's location in relation to yours on a Google map. In-app messages can be sent to nearby people too.

Highlight has received mixed reviews. What's most controversial is that it only pulls information on strangers. You're not swapping personal information with trusted friends. There's no option to check-in, although you can pause Highlight for any length of time.

Right now, having Highlight is semi-beneficial and cool. Tech influencers are the only people on it and many of them are people I'd actually like to meet. If Highlight goes mainstream however, I won't get excited that Susie from The Flower Shop is three feet away.

Highlight could also be used as a new form of dating. If you're in a bar and see someone attractive, you can learn a little bit about them before approaching. If you see they're already in a Facebook relationship, Highlight could save your breath.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-del...z1ovFAbUGk

[Samseau]

No way is this the future of game. In order to look at others, you have to be on highlight and let others look at you.


Women will never feel comfortable with this shit.

[Tuthmosis]

This is the future of game. With men totally castrated, we'll be relegated to this scenario. Just imagine way more fatties:

[Gmac]

If I shared the same interests as the majority of the women I date I'd shoot myself. Like I want them seeing my pictures or where I work.

I see this flopping fast, but I'm sure el mech could probably find a way to make it work for him.

[Basil Ransom]

Haha, it would be funny if this made guys even more hesitant to cold approach, rewarding the few who left who still did.

That said, I've always wondered what it'd be like if a bar/restaurant had some way to send notes to people at another table.

I've tried various mobile dating services, and they all suck, badly.

You might get this to work (read: widespread female adoption) if there were strong filters available, eg 'Only show people within two degrees of separation' or 'Only show college graduates').

[thegmanifesto]

(03-12-2012 11:59 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

No way is this the future of game. In order to look at others, you have to be on highlight and let others look at you.


Women will never feel comfortable with this shit.

Do you realize that people would have said the same thing about Facebook 10-15 years ago?

(One of a multitude of reasons I am not on it).

Hell, who would have thought everyone would even be carrying around a cell phone 15 years ago and slapping it like an orangutan? I didn't.

I have learned not to bet against technology.

And not to bet against the stupidity of humans.

By the way Tuth, this is genius. I have long thought about putting something similar on my site:

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DISCLAIMER: For entertainment purposes only. The author does not necessarily practice or believe any of the above. Furthermore, the author does not confirm or deny that any of the above actually occurred or is even loosely based on true events or real individuals. The author believes that women--especially traditionally unattractive and overweight ones--are worthy of respect, super-high wages, and abundant intimacy with men far more attractive than them, for no other reason than they are women.

[Basil Ransom]

(03-12-2012 12:12 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 11:59 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

No way is this the future of game. In order to look at others, you have to be on highlight and let others look at you.


Women will never feel comfortable with this shit.

Do you realize that people would have said the same thing about Facebook 10-15 years ago?

Which is why I think it could work with some sort of filtering, limiting it to people with whom you have some connection.

The linchpin of Facebook, at least in the early days, was that it was built around pre-existing social networks. It was pretty closed off. More like a gated community than a street fair.

See cocooning.

[thegmanifesto]

(03-12-2012 12:23 PM)basilransom Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 12:12 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 11:59 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

No way is this the future of game. In order to look at others, you have to be on highlight and let others look at you.


Women will never feel comfortable with this shit.

Do you realize that people would have said the same thing about Facebook 10-15 years ago?

Which is why I think it could work with some sort of filtering, limiting it to people with whom you have some connection.

The linchpin of Facebook, at least in the early days, was that it was built around pre-existing social networks. It was pretty closed off. More like a gated community than a street fair.

See cocooning.

Hell, I will go out on a limb and call this one right now:

In 10-15 years, everyone will be on this.

(Except for a few Custom Suited Down International Playboys who value their privacy, of course).

[Samseau]

(03-12-2012 12:12 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 11:59 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

No way is this the future of game. In order to look at others, you have to be on highlight and let others look at you.


Women will never feel comfortable with this shit.

Do you realize that people would have said the same thing about Facebook 10-15 years ago?

Facebook has strict privacy controls. Privacy is important for women.


Let's put it this way - even if women did start using highlight, they'd limit the amount of info put onto such that looking at their highlight profile would provide you with no real advantages. Similar to how online dating works today:

- Don't read their profile for a way to message them
- Create message templates

The only way highlight would ever be useful is for determining where a lot of hot girls are hanging out, but then there will be 4x as many guys going to those spots.

If anything, highlight would tell us were not to go.

[Gmac]

I see way more dudes using this than anyone else. It's like foursquare meets OKCupid, and all I can see are the negative effects it will have on privacy.

[Enfant_Terrible]

Awesome, another way for guys to pussy out of cold approaches and another layer of bitch shielding

[speakeasy]

(03-12-2012 12:04 PM)Gmac Wrote:  

If I shared the same interests as the majority of the women I date I'd shoot myself. Like I want them seeing my pictures or where I work.

I see this flopping fast, but I'm sure el mech could probably find a way to make it work for him.

You never know. I thought twitter and foursquare would flop fast. And look at them now.

[46.]

(03-12-2012 12:23 PM)basilransom Wrote:  

The linchpin of Facebook, at least in the early days, was that it was built around pre-existing social networks. It was pretty closed off. More like a gated community than a street fair.

Yup. I'm sure the Highlight people will turn it into a network of gated communities mirroring real life. For example, imagine if Roosh forum members could identify each other, secretly, in Vegas or Manhattan. There are a million ways they could do it. I have to think it really starts in closed spaces like conferences connecting buyers and sellers, and universities (like Facebook), then radiates outward.

(03-12-2012 12:26 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Hell, I will go out on a limb and call this one right now:
In 10-15 years, everyone will be on this.

It'll be waaaay sooner than that for two reasons:
1) "Mobile, Social, Local" Rule... these factors are driving everything right now and Highlight has 'em all. This a VC rule. Even if it fails, the next incarnation/generation will succeed. If anyone doesn't believe it, think of the ad market for those served up on the fly (key revenue generator).

Google's Schmidt: The Future Is Mobile, Local, Social
http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231600694/...*.ecappj02

2) Such a tool won't be for today's 28 year olds...think about today's 15 year olds who've known nothing but social networking and cell phones. Similar to how older people didn't "get" Facebook, today's Facebook crowd won't "get" the next thing.

[Basil Ransom]

(03-12-2012 02:12 PM)46. Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 12:23 PM)basilransom Wrote:  

The linchpin of Facebook, at least in the early days, was that it was built around pre-existing social networks. It was pretty closed off. More like a gated community than a street fair.

Yup. I'm sure the Highlight people will turn it into a network of gated communities mirroring real life. For example, imagine if Roosh forum members could identify each other, secretly, in Vegas or Manhattan. There are a million ways they could do it. I have to think it really starts in closed spaces like conferences connecting buyers and sellers, and universities (like Facebook), then radiates outward.

(03-12-2012 12:26 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Hell, I will go out on a limb and call this one right now:
In 10-15 years, everyone will be on this.

It'll be waaaay sooner than that for two reasons:
1) "Mobile, Social, Local" Rule... these factors are driving everything right now and Highlight has 'em all. This a VC rule. Even if it fails, the next incarnation/generation will succeed. If anyone doesn't believe it, think of the ad market for those served up on the fly (key revenue generator).

The funny thing is, all the people designing these things are the most awkward, socially maladroit people around. For some, like Mark Zuckerberg, this means they can think rationally and honestly about how people socialize.

But for the most part, it means techies fetishizing dumb shit that worsens social interactions. It's an article of faith for them that technology is, in general, an inherently good thing. They may say it's neutral as a matter of argument, but their endless cheerleading for technology says otherwise. They have a consuming interest in tech to fill the void they feel in their lives - I've felt that way occasionally. Venus and vino are better obsessions. Honestly, if I could, I'd wave a magic wand and make television programming disappear.