Google has recently patented the Automated Generation of Suggestions for Personalized Reactions in a Social Network; a technology that hopes to be of assistance in sustaining social network etiquette by finding messages and social events worth responding to (such as birthdays) and auto-generating response suggestions that match your customary social behaviour which is machine-learned over long-term use.

There is no requirement for the user to set reminders or be proactive. The system automatically without user input analyzes information to which the user has access, and generates suggestions for personalized reactions to messages. The suggestion analyzer cooperates with the decision tree to learn the user’s behavior and automatically adjust the suggested messages that are generated over time.

Ref: algopop