Posted on 10/02/2015 1:15:46 PM PDT by simpson96
NEW YORK — The CEO of the new app called Peeple, a "Yelp for humans," is defending her new product after critics called it “irresponsible “and “the third circle of hell.”
Peeple, slated to launch in November, lets mobile users rate the people they know personally, professionally and romantically. According to the app’s founders Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, the app was created to “find the good” in people and not as a cyber bullying tool. The women documented the development of the app in a YouTube series.
“I think this app does really help find the best in each of us but it would be pointless if it was all positive,” Cordray said in the online documentary.
Critics slammed Peeple, calling it “irresponsible “and “the third circle of hell.” The response was so aggressive, the company’s CEO attempted to shut off the comments section of their Facebook page — an attempt that was met with irony.
One critic tweeted, “founder of #peeple, an app designed to collect unsolicited feedback doesn't appear to like unsolicited feedback.”
In a statement to PIX11 News, Peeple CEO Julia Cordray responded to the backlash.
“With any new concept there is naturally fear. When the people found out that the earth was round instead of flat and that we revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around us naturally people were upset and confused and they pushed back with all that they had,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pix11.com ...
Everybody should download the app and then rate Julia and Nicole poorly.
She’s female, and she’s the CEO of a tech firm. The government stands by - $500B. She’ll get the Elon Musk treatment - just wait.
I’m just waiting for the litigation part.
Slander, libel, etc should be great for business.
For the rest of us discovery should be entertaining.
The catch is that you can be rated, personally, w/o using the app yourself. With no recourse to alter any damaging or untrue information.
I can’t help but think she’s really just in business to make business for her lawyer friends.
So the CEO of a ratings app is upset that her company is being rated? Hoo-kay.
A couple of libel suits may change her tune.......
These women are psychopaths.
"New"... what's new about bullying, character assassination, gossip, slander, false witness, etc?
According to the article only Facebook users can be “reviewed”. So can Facebook attempt to file a cease and desist order? Do only people who sign up for this app do reviews and be reviewed? If not, this woman is opening up a huge can of libel and defamation lawsuits.
Can I rate if this CEO is guilty or not guilty?? :0
I’m sure that the app will send out messages letting you know that you’ve been rated by someone else, just like those billion linkedin messages everyone gets. It will be the newest in a long line of spam messages.
You have recourse, just as you’d have recourse if someone made a blog post about you, or panned you on social media, or whatever.
Why would you require this app to have something special and magically different than the rest of the internet?
My best advice is don’t give the app free publicity, ignore it, and it will simply remain a tool for liberals to stab people in the back, as you absolutely know that this is what it will be used for. Enterprising individuals will take donation lists from pro marriage organizations and propositions and ensure that everyone knows that they are ‘homophobic’ for doing so, to use just one example of how it will be used.
For myself, I’d learn more about the character of a person by their enemies than their friends.
As a lawyer who can use more work, I heartily applaud this historic advance in human communication.
This idea has met with almost universal disgust. I hope these women haven’t sunk too much of their friends’ and relatives’ money into the venture. Otherwise, they’re going to be hearing from some very ticked-off “peeple.”
Typical of the left... it’s not their miserable ideas, it’s everyone else’s [accurate] perceptions that are the problem.
However, section 230 of the Communications Act is her friend. (It immunizes the hosts of online sites from liability committed by third-party posters.) Still, litigation is inevitable and great for lawyers.
If it links to Facebook you’ll have one fake person defaming another fake person constantly.
I hope the CEO has a really good legal team, because they are going to need it.
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