App Idea: Trinka: Big BIG Data

Are you prepared to reconsider how we, as a species, interact, meet people and consider the world around us? 

Trinka – The trinkets of life we collect and hold through the vestiges of encounters with others.
  

We all  have routines.

• Have you ever wondered how many of the same people you see every day without realizing
• Have you ever wondered if the person in line behind you at the grocery store is the same person that sat behind you at a baseball game 7 years ago?
•   Have you ever wondered how many times you have seen the same person at a night club and never recognized them?

We, as humans, are oblivious to the social world around us that exists beyond the bubble of what is digestable to us. The man in the powder blue coat, the woman with the giant sunglasses...our friends and acquaintances. Familiarity and impression is how we interpret and ultimately recognize our world.

We can change this.

Trinka is a mobile application that tracks your relationships with everyday people and has the intrinsic potential to disrupt our modern socially accepted conventions for meeting and interacting with one another.

Chance Encounters (Trinkets) can be tracked anonymously or, with willing participants, anonymous relationships can be converted into a friendship.

Overview

A user downloads the mobile application and it begins tracking and detecting other devices around it. When other devices are in proximity more than once or repeatedly in proximity the user is alerted. It is through these alerts that users will begin to detect the patterns in the world around them.

The app will give the users daily and weekly updates of activity and sort them in order of importance (to the user) according to configurable settings.

If a user would like to use paid features of the app they would be able to contact proximate devices that they are interested in learning more about. (Provided the proximate target is set to 'receive introductions)

Emoticons can only be immediately received by users who have their apps set to receive. For users in 'do not disturb' mode communications will be suppressed until 'do not disturb' is deactivated.

Motivation: I want to know if I am standing in the same room with someone I walked past 20 years ago. That's cool.

Full design available upon request.