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How do i make 1M friends who always respond to my messages within 1 min
- sharemywin 9y agoyou would need to be really famous.
- sova 9y agoOne may argue that friends begotten through fame are not the sort of friends one wants.
- user-on1 9y agohi @sharemywin, that's a good point. and i really mean friends and not fans.
- ohquu 9y agoMaybe the more fundamental question is “how do I make one million friends,” in which case the answer is “you can’t.”
- sova 9y agoOffer them only what will benefit them in the short and long term, be they words thoughts or deeds, and eventually people will lovingly rely on your language, words, and presence because you have been thinking so much of how to be of aid to them.
- rl3 9y agoThis is probably one of the weirdest questions I've seen on HN, but I'll bite anyways: Without spoiling the plot of a certain film, you'd want to be an AI or augmented human capable of maintaining one million relationships simultaneously. Simple.
- user-on1 9y agoi don't think it has to be simultaneous, i made one friend 2 months back and din have much interaction till now and that person still connected with me wen i reached out...
- marblar 9y agoThe response time requirement is even easier if the friends are also AI. Tom from Myspace probably has a shot.
- sky_projektor 9y agoA web based fire alert system can help. The system becomes responsive by broadcasting a Help message to the million friends if one of them raises an alarm.
- NonEUCitizen 9y agoYou won't make 1M friends, but for any given much lower N number of friends, to get them to respond within 1 min, increase the signal-to-noise ratio of your messages, and message them infrequently. Better yet, ask yourself: why do I need (or feel the need for) people to respond to my messages within 1 min? What is wrong with my outlook and time management?
- ng-user 9y agoWhy 1M and not 1B? Why 1 minute and not 10 seconds? Both sets of values seem unobtainable to the average "random Joe". Perhaps you can divulge why you require such arbitrary values?
- pesfandiar 9y agoSince friendship is a mutual relationship and you also need to consider them friends, how are you going to go above your Dunbar's number? (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) Also, I think given how little quality time you can give to each friend, you need to have very convincing qualities that may not be achieved by technology alone (if you're thinking about automation of relationship management).
- owebmaster 9y agoBecome a country-changing leader. Brazilian ex-president Lula has 100 milion friends (and other 100 milion enemies). Both sides would answer him in 1 minute.
- codesternews 9y agoHire 1M Friends.
- mesozoic 9y agoContact 1 million people and tell them you will transfer $1000 to them as long as they respond within one minute. Do a test. Probably 10% will respond so pay them the $100 billion. Repeat the exercise until you find 1 million reliable people probably after 10 tries or so. This will only cost you about $1 trillion.
- ReverseCold 9y ago$100 or even $50 or mabye even $10 might work too if you need to save on cost
- tdb7893 9y agoIf you a few hundred trillion friends and at least a million will respond in the first minute. Either that or you need to make friends with a million robots
- somethingsimple 9y agoSounds like you were asked a ridiculous interview question.
- achairapart 9y agoBuild an army.
- c8g 9y agobuild 1M bot and host them on aws. now, you have 1M bot friends. simple.