Posted on 10/01/2015 1:14:55 PM PDT by upbeat5
Imagine you’re about to go on a first date. You Yelp the restaurant, naturally, to make sure that it has something edible on the menu; then you Google the person, naturally, to make sure that they’re not obnoxious on social media. Simple enough!
In a (perhaps inevitable) new development, these two perfectly innocuous Internet searches are coming together in Peeple, an app that will allow users to rate and search other human beings. It’s Yelp for people, and it’s coming in November.
When the app launches, users will be able to review their friends, coworkers, and romantic partners — who may or may not have ever signed on to the app themselves — using a one- to five-star rating scale.
Co-founders Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough insist that the app exists to promote good feeling among people, and that Peeple is not a bullying platform. “As two empathetic female entrepreneurs in the tech space, we want to spread love and positivity,” Cordray told The Washington Post. “We want to operate with thoughtfulness.”
In order to rate somebody, you need to join the app through Facebook using your real name, and you must be at least 21 years old. To review somebody else who is not on the app, you can create a profile for them with their cell phone number; they will be notified via text that they have been added to Peeple, but they won’t have an option to remove their profile from the app.
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Just wait until the first massive lawsuit comes through.
High talker
Two face
Not sponge worthy
Anti-dentite
Excessive shrinkage
Contest participant
A two-face
Lawyers are gonna love this.
OH! And being a picker!
Not knowing someone’s name, just that it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.
That gives them at least 2-3 hours to clean your clock : )
Named after a serial killer
...and you television, your computer, your...
Depending on whom you ask I’m either a saint or the king asshole of the entire asshole nation. I try to deal with everyone honestly and with love but that doesn’t guarantee that they’re going to like what I have to say. Looks like the real opportunity here is to open a law practice specializing in libel and slander law.
“She was flouting society’s conventions.”
You underestimate people. :-)
Divorce attorneys moving into defamation lawsuits by jilted ex-lovers, married or not.
You’re both tellin’ me that they went and made a better grade of idiot while I wasn’t looking ...
But have a stroke and the break-up is off.
Stopping for a box of jujyfruit on the way to the hospital.
A taxpayer-funded slander site? I wouldn’t be surprised. Bullies gotta do something with stolen lunch money.
So you or anyone who borrows your phone can negatively rate everyone in your address book, and they can’t get their account shut down or prevent the negative information linked to their personal contact information from being used against them.
This will go downhill fast.
Yes. I am very careful to whom I post, open e mail, or visit websites. I don’t even have the internet on my phone.
No comment! = :^|
Glad to know you are careful. Good tactic.
I tell everyone on FB every time I leave. What I don’t say is Hubby is not going with me. Lol
Still waiting.
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