‘Would Would I Say?’ Facebook App Creates Your Status So You Don’t Have To

Ever get tired of coming up with your own status and posting it on Facebook? Now you can have a bot generate a status for you. The new app “What Would I Say?” has just recently been developed, but already it is becoming viral, with an increasing number of Facebook users turning to the app for their status update.

The premise of the app is simple. You just need to click on the “Generate Status” button, and the app will put together words from your old Facebook statuses to make a new one. That way, the status would still sound like you. It might sound gibberish, but that’s really just from your own old posts.

Here are some examples of statuses generated by “What Would I Say?” from users:

the truest thing i have ever read. thnks #wwis how did u kno ? pic.twitter.com/LlujRKFqYO

— Alis☹n (@SuzukiMethhead) November 13, 2013

Hehehe this #wwisapp is killing me and taking me out of context!! #wwis pic.twitter.com/PKbpWSa7s1 — Boom Boom Baam (@LungeloFako) November 13, 2013

#wwis meme is #2real, this encapsulates my LIFE pic.twitter.com/pRoD38J8Kz

— grace lin (@teenspiritnyc) November 13, 2013

I gotta go home, but I'll leave you with this. #WWIS pic.twitter.com/k1MokAD4lJ — Audra Marvin (@audra_marvin) November 13, 2013

Don’t they look fun?

If you’re still hesitant to try it because you’re worried about security issues, rest assured that the Web site doesn’t have a database to store your personal information.

It explains, “Don’t worry, we don’t store any of your personal information anywhere. In fact, we don’t even have a database! All computations are done client side, so only your browser ever sees your post history.”

The app was developed by Princeton graduates – Pawel Przytycki, Ugne Klibaite, Vicky Yao, Daniel Jiang, Edward Young, Harvey Cheng, and Alex Furger – at the Princeton University’s HackPrinceton 2013 over the course of just a day and a half in early November.

“This was just for fun,” Klibaite told the New Yorker. “We never thought we would get further than showing this off at the Hackathon and to our friends on Facebook.”

Their fun activity did spread online and fast, however, much to the developers’ surprise. After their presentation during the weekend, the app has been linked by various news sites by Tuesday, and the site was shared over 1.2 million times, as per Facebook Graph API.

They didn’t forget to take advantage of their creation’s newfound fame, though. They included a hyperlinked message on their page that reads: “Please consider donating to typhoon relief in the Philippines.” The hyperlink sends users to the Care.org page, where people can donate to help the survivors of the super typhoon Haiyan in the Southeast Asian country.