Deutsche Post DHL, the world’s leading mail and logistics services
group, has launched a new service for Facebook users – the "Social
Memories” app. It gives people a unique way to keep track of their
otherwise fleeting Facebook data: a customized book that compiles their
social network data and visualizes it with photos and infographics. The
book transforms users’ social network information into a lasting memory.
Social Memories was developed together with the agency Cosalux and is
offered to Facebook users globally. The app can be found on www.facebook.com/socialmemories
or www.socialmemories.de
"Deutsche Post DHL has always been the bearer of social memories on
postcards and letters, nowadays oftentimes substituted by digital
communication”, says Clemens Beckmann, Executive Vice President of
Deutsche Post Innovation. "We are now turning it around, giving physical
form to the digitized world.”
The app gives the choice between a free digital photo album consisting
of selected book pages or a 28-page printed hardcover version that can
be shipped worldwide. Once the user selects the time frame to be
covered, the Social Memories application automatically begins to craft a
book full of photos and statistics, culling from the user’s profile,
status updates and photos. Images can be adjusted individually.
The Social Memories app, which functions in strict compliance with data
privacy regulations, also analyzes the user’s profile information,
providing information on items such as a person’s most active friends or
most popular wall posts. The results are plugged into easy-to-follow
graphs. The user can also choose between three colors for the book and
different languages. An online bookshelf lets the user flip through all
his personal memory books created over time. Vouchers for making this
book a gift are also available.
Nearly 70,000 virtual books have already been created since Social
Memories was started in the middle of May. Deutsche Post DHL plans to
continue to build features to the app to offer additional individuality.
On the internet: www.dp-dhl.com
