"OK Google Now, foster my relationships."

A new patent application from the search giant tips a system that would monitor your activity across social networks, email, or text to determine what you do and proactively draft messages or status updates.

While current email systems allow for calendar alerts, and Facebook will remind you of your friends' birthdays, "all that is produced is a reminder message about the event that the user input," Google says in the patent application. The user then has to exert themselves greatly and actually type the words "happy birthday" into a smartphone or inform Twitter followers about their brunch selection.

Google's proposed system "automatically without user input analyzes information to which the user has access, and generates suggestions for personalized reactions to messages," the application says. It can then "learn the user's behavior and automatically adjust the suggested messages that are generated over time."

It does not appear that the system would actually post these updates without the user knowing. "The suggested reactions or messages are presented by the user interface module to the user," the patent app says," which they can then send, discard, or ignore.

Such a system might seem lazy and impersonal. But at one time, wishing someone a Facebook happy birthday rather than sending a card, or texting rather than calling would have been considered rude and anti-social. Now it's largely the norm.

Google is already experimenting with predictive alerts via Google Now (above), though that has largely focused on traffic alerts, travel reminders, or nearby deals. Alerts like the ones outlined in Google patent would likely be a nice addition to Google Now, though a patent application doesn't always translate into a product release.

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