'Yelp for people' app will let you 'rate' real-life human beings

Time Inc Entertainment ^ | September 30, 2015 | Mary Sollosi

[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.

[upbeat5]

What could go wrong?

[2banana]

Let’s start with Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough...

1 star.

[cicero2k]

How long before this system is “gamed”?

[DoughtyOne]

What a simply terrible idea.

Bringing jr. high and high school bullying into the 21st Century for adults.

Any moron can rate someone, and others can act on it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

In order to rate somebody, you need to join the app through Facebook using your real name

Hold it right there. Almost NOBODY on Facebook is using their real name.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"I don't often use social media. But when I do, I use Yelp for People."

[Robert DeLong]

Hopefully that they will be inundated with defamation of character lawsuits.

[bigbob]

What we really need is Yelp for “Ideas that Suck”

*****

[NorthMountain]

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.”

Bullsqueeze.

100% Pure.

Unadulterated.

They can't POSSIBLY be that stupid.

[Gamecock]

In the old days our opinion of others was reflected by where people were on the speed-dial.

[stephenjohnbanker]

This is another PUKERberg ploy to farm and sell personal info. Anyone who does this is a fool!

[mlizzy]

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.

Promoting suicide the best way they know how.

[MeshugeMikey]

Revrunt Al Sharpton has just fired off a Press Release DEMANDING a”Yelp For People Of Color”/

[Gamecock]

When I Goggled these two rocket scientists this is exactly what I expected to see:

[I want the USA back]

May their silly a$$es be sued off.

[MeshugeMikey]

America’s leading LGBTZYX group.....now demanding “Yelp For People Of Indeterminate Gender.../...

[Buckeye McFrog]

hmmm....they remind me of someone

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, this is a big mistake.

I would also urge women in particular to be very careful how you use today’s media. You can set yourself up real easy.

Don’t tell folks where you’ll be or telegraph what your routine is. Some guy fixates on you and you’re in serious trouble.

[Talisker]

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.”

Bullsh!t. This is pure evil and they know it. Anonymous bullying, created by two liberal women - what a surprise.

[piasa]

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.

Apparently this company is suicidal.