{"id":9966,"date":"2017-11-16T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-teen-in-residence-defects-to-google-and-launches-lies-2.html"},"modified":"2017-11-16T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:31:00","slug":"facebook-teen-in-residence-defects-to-google-and-launches-lies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-teen-in-residence-defects-to-google-and-launches-lies-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook teen-in-residence defects to Google and launches Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"


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At age 17, Michael Sayman was Facebook\u2019s youngest employee ever. Having already launched 5 apps, he wowed Mark Zuckerberg, earned a demo spot on stage at Facebook F8 conference, and scored a full-time engineering gig as the social network\u2019s go-to teen<\/a>. Over the past three years, he helped Facebook try to crack the middle school market with apps like the now defunct<\/a> Lifestage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But in August he switched sides, leaving to go work for Google. Yet his arrangement hasn\u2019t stopped the now-21-year-old Sayman from tinkering with apps during his off-hours.<\/p>\n

Today he launches his latest, a trivia game called Lies<\/a> where you try to guess the one true fact about a friend amongst an array of fibs. It follows the social mechanics of his first hit, 4Snaps, which was like Pictionary but where you take four photos instead of drawing to get people to guess the right word.<\/p>\n

Facebook is constantly accused of copying competitors like Snapchat, but with Lies, Sayman is returning the favor. Lies mimes the interface of tbh, the anonymous teen compliment sharing app Facebook recently acquired<\/a> after it hit #1. \u201cThe idea came to me as an evolution of the past games I had created, as well as what I noticed was becoming popular on the App Store today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Lies, you first upload your contacts, and then take a Tinder-style profile quiz where you swipe yes or no about questions about yourself. Then you\u2019re given tbh-style four-choice questions about friends with the goal of correctly guessing which tribia tidbit about them is true. The statements range from \u201cI\u2019ve gone skinny dipping\u201d to \u201cI\u2019m afraid of crowds\u201d to \u201cI\u2019ve kissed someone on the first date\u201d.<\/p>\n

When friends answer questions about you, you get notified. \u201cThis game ends friendships\u201d it declares, as you might learn who doesn\u2019t really know you or thinks the worst about you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s about it. Sayman proudly says he built the app over just two weekends<\/a> before joining Google, so it\u2019s thin and might still be a bit buggy. An Android version is in the works.<\/p>\n

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Michael Sayman grew up at Facebook. On the right, him at age 17 with Mark Zuckerberg. On the left, him at 20 (he\u2019s now 21).<\/p>\n

While a cute idea, Lies may succumb to impatience and vanity. It takes a few minutes of non-stop self-interviewing to answer enough questions to fill your profile and unlock the game. Some teens may flake before ever getting that far. And people might lie when answering some of the lewder or defamatory questions, like whether they\u2019ve ever peed in the shower or stolen money from their grandparents. That breaks the game because friends\u2019 guesses are irrelevant if the source of truth is fake news.<\/p>\n

You could see Lies as the devil-on-your-shoulder counterpart to the tbh angel<\/a>. The racier questions might draw people in, but the constant dealing in shameful topics could get exhausting. Still, Lies is another step towards Sayman cracking the code with a hit mobile app. He\u2019s been building them since he was 13. And with Snapchat, Facebook, Houseparty, and other startups all chasing the teen market, Sayman\u2019s combination of youth and experience make him a hot commodity.<\/p>\n

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