New website analyses the tone of your texts… so you can avoid accidentally falling out with your friends
The site will tell you how angry, disgusted, happy, scared or sad you sound
THE beauty of texts is that they are short and sweet, but unfortunately that does put them at risk of being misinterpreted.
But if you’re worried about coming across as a d*** in your next Whatsapp message, there’s a new website which has you covered.
All you have to do is copy and paste your next text into the box, and it will tell you whether you’re coming across as angry, disgusted, happy or sad – as well as detecting the level of fear expressed.
Because, as we have all learned the hard way, arguments can be caused by simply forgetting to put kisses or, God forbid, accidentally finishing a text with a full stop.
The judgmental site will also analyse the personality traits or social tendencies of the sender – including how open, conscientious, extrovert and agreeable they are, and even their emotional range.
We gave the new site a go, to see if it could really be relied on – and, importantly for us Brits, it does seem to get sarcasm.
I tried sending a ‘thanks for that’ text, and the overwhelming tone was one of joy, at 87 per cent.
However by simply substituting the word ‘thanks’ for ‘cheers’ the tone changed completely.
According to the calculator, 38 per cent of the tone was disgust, 31 per cent fear, 18 per cent sadness and there was just a 34 per cent chance of it being interpreted as a happy message.
A bit oddly, the site also analyses customer service chat and corporate announcements, to help you decide whether or not there’s a need to panic at your boss’ latest email.
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However, it does get confused sometimes… so I wouldn’t trust it blindly if I was you.
It managed to detect anger in my ‘thanks for ruining my night text’ at 40 per cent, but also said 50 per cent of the tone was joy – which was obviously NOT the case.
It also doesn’t pick up on the fact that putting full stops at the end of a message is always a bad idea, while the dreaded 'K' didn't evoke much of a reaction from any of the negative camps.
Of course, if you want to avoid a misunderstanding it’s normally safest just to pick up the phone and chat – but who has the time for that?
