Bot applications are the latest Facebook fad plaguing our Walls. It all started with Crush Bot, an application telling you who are the top 5 people who may have a crush on you - male, female or both.  Then there’s the Bridesmaid Bot (your top five contacts who will be your bridesmaids when you get married), Friend Bot (your top five BFFs) and even Gay Bot (… I think you can surmise what this one does).

In my experience, the Bot applications yield consistent results.  People who came up in the Friends Bot result also came up in my Bridesmaid Bot results, sans one person.  Almost everyone in my Friends Bot also appeared in my Crush Bot!  (For fun, I chose both genders for the two applications.)

How does the Bot applications generate the results?  Others presume that it is the number of tags you get in the person’s profile.  My experience told me otherwise.  Perhaps, the results indicate the people who frequently visit your profile. Maybe you have more things in common with these people, Facebook-wise (like application, fan pages, and groups.)

Like any Facebook fad, the Bot applications will die out, sooner or later.  While we still do not know how the Bots calculate these answers (or can anyone enlighten us?), I suggest we take precaution and resist the urge to stalk - oops I mean check out - our crushes’ Facebook profiles, if we do not want to end up in their Crush Bot list.