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Meet Steven -- A New Emoji-Based Social Network With Big Potential

The Verge’s Sarah Perez is excited about Steven -- a new emoji-based social network developed by Twitter’s former Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury. On its surface, Steven “offers you a way to log your activities and location using emoji … plus view and respond to posts from other friends,” Perez writes. Yet, “By recording a user’s everyday activities and location … Steven is gradually building up a database of information that could be put to use in the future.” More interesting still, the app creates a “sort of ‘ambient awareness’ of what you’re [sic] friends are doing, even when they’re not actively publicizing that on Facebook, or explicitly checking in on other apps.”
 

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