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LetsMakeFriends

Andrey Yatsenko
December 10, 2009

Overview

This program is one that can be embedded in future popular operating systems to allow internet users to make new friends. Unobtrusiveness and unprecedented ease of use distinguishes this friend-making tool from any other.

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Concepts Demonstrated

• Functional programming was used here.

External Technology

This program can be used to connect any two computers together using TCP on an intranet or the Internet. Nothing beyond the standard scheme/tcp library was required.

Innovation

My program uses universal human characteristics to facilitate universal human tendencies and desires. In an ordinary chat client, user A will send user B a message, giving user B the opportunity to immediately respond. Implicit in user B's ability to easily respond to user A is user A's expectation and user B's obligation for user B to respond to user A. My program eliminates the awkwardness that communication over the Internet sometimes entails.

Here, after user A sends user B a message, user B will respond if and only if he has something meaningful to say to user A. User A has no false expectation for user B's immediate response. All this leads to a stress-free online conversation, with no false expectations of getting an immediate response (and no disappointments when there is none), and overall stronger, healthier online relationships.

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