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This app tells you which friends stress you out, make you happy



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Apps and wearables make it easy to track everything about your life — steps walked, hours slept, your heart rate. But a new app called pplkpr aims to quantify your relationships, collecting data about your social interactions and stripping it down to determine how you really feel when you talk to certain people.


Developers Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald launched the app (pronounced "people keeper") to allow users to look at spikes in stress or excitement levels when interacting with others


It might be obvious that a phone call with mom might kick your heart rate up a few notches, but biometric data could reveal a few unexpected findings, too. For example, working with one colleague could bring on more anxiety than working with another, or Friend A could leave you feeling way more happy than Friend B. Read more...


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