Imagine that you are on a social network or even a dating site and you are trying to find people who share the same interests as you. These sites usually have some fields where you can specify your interest, indicate which books or movies you like, etc. If the site has a good algorithm, it could look for optimal alignment between your interest profile and that of others to identify potential friends or associates. However, not everyone takes the time to complete such questionnaires, and due to this lack of accurate information, the results may be less than expected.

However, there are other sites, where people make electronic collections of their interests, such as Tumblr, stumble upon Y interest. interest is a very interesting site to determine the psychological profile of someone. Us interest people make collections of images (including images with attached text) of topics that interest or like them. This is great for psychological profiling as it gives a great overview of all the interests in different categories that a person might have.

Yew interest could be improved and improved in its functionality so that you can compare the degree of overlap in the pins you have with another person, in principle you could find people who share a maximum of interests with you and who could be potential friends.

In fact, you interest collection is in a way you meme card. Memes are elements of sets of beliefs, behaviors and ideas, which are typical of a certain cultural group and can easily spread between people. Religions for example are very strong meme groups or shared regards. But also political or sports affiliation can make you belong to a certain meme group.

Each category of idea typical of such meme group it can be called a meme, in analogy with a gene.

HAS Memorandum then it can be considered as the complete set of memes of a subject in analogy with a complete genome.

In genetics, if you want to determine the degree of similarity (homology or identity) between two organisms, you perform a gene sequence alignment.

In analogy, an algorithm could perform a “same alignment” protocol on interest. Each image shared by two different people can get a score. In fact, the image works like a nucleotide in a gene.

interest you could improve such an algorithm by creating standard categories in a cache (users are not forced to use these standard categories). A complete set of images belonging to a given category could establish a given meme. The degree of completeness of a given meme could also be weighted by attributing a score in the alignment protocol.

Thus interest could be improved to generate a meme profile for each “pinner” with a certain similarity score with other people. It is likely that people with high similarity scores with your profile also have images, which you as a user will like, and which you can add to complete your collections even more.

Additionally, you may come across people who share a large number of views and interests with you, who are likely to be potential friends.

The term “meme lineup” is known in the gaming industry in a slightly different sense: players choose which “meme” they want to belong to (e.g. “bad” or “good”). But you interest The profile, in fact, shows what kind of meme you belong to if such an algorithm could be added.

It is noteworthy that, just as modern genetics has been improved with epigenetics (which corresponds to molecular modifications such as the methylation of certain nucleotides), the pins contain epimemetic information in the form of comments that can be added by the pinner. While repinning someone else’s pin, you can’t change the image, you can change the accompanying comments. Just as epigenetic information is not necessarily inherited, epimemetic the information also does not need to be inherited.

East interest-type of memetic alignment for psychological profiling can not only find application on dating sites or social networks; you may also find an application in psychology or recruiting. It can actually give a more nuanced reflection of someone’s character than the traditional DISC red, yellow, green, blue typing (developed by W. Marston) used in corporate organizations with a management culture.

As a psychological or recruitment test, a person could be given a set of images and allowed to select and categorize them with a interest as a tool. This not only gives a good idea of ​​the subject’s preferences, but also shows the subject’s ability to categorize and create categories ontologically, as well as the speed with which such classification is arrived at. Rather, such tools could provide young people with precise suggestions for careers they might like in online career tests.

It could even be used in criminology as an alternative to the famous Rorschach inkblot test, in which subjects have to relate their perceptions to the inkblot they see.

In short, a memetic alignment tool based on similarities of iconic sets in a tool like interest has great potential in a variety of fields, from dating sites to criminology.