Their app WILL be used to belittle and ridicule people, by people feeling safe in their ability to bully from a fake Facebook acct.
One or more people thus abused WILL be able to hunt down the real location of these two bimbos, and kill them.
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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Their app WILL be used to belittle and ridicule people, by people feeling safe in their ability to bully from a fake Facebook acct.
One or more people thus abused WILL be able to hunt down the real location of these two bimbos, and kill them.
Those two have “OMG we’re just so smart!” written all over them.
“Almost NOBODY on Facebook is using their real name.”
Indeed. Myself included. But I had no trouble in passing facebook’s deliberately lame “real person” verification, so I would imagine most of the fake names on FB are considered “real”. Like mine, for example.
Gonna be interesting though to watch the kind of lying BS people use when they “rate” some of those non-existent people.
I had an issue with a family member who was being harassed by someone on Facebook who was using a name so blatantly fake my 3 year old nephew could have spotted him. Despite repeated requests to Facebook (and I use the term loosely) “security” officials to remove the profile they never did jack **** about him.
Good sound advice.
They must be looking for an invitation to the White Hut.
Some reports say they got a Federal Govt. grant to work on this (they won’t say from what agency)
Slander, liable. gee, everything a lawyer needs.
Besides the obvious lawsuits, I noticed in the comments on the site that catelinn janner is interested lol..
After writing that, I realized that in truth men should be careful too.
Don’t brag about that big vacation coming up. What you are telling folks is that your home will be empty for the time you’re gone and easier to enter and exploit.
Some thing for your habitual routine.
“Hey I like to go out with the buds every Monday night. I never get home before 2:00”
A hundred bucks says that they are. :=)
Difficult
Close talker
Bad breaker-upper
Low talker
Man hands
Eats peas one at a time
Can you think of any more?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so I’ll just leave it at them having very little common sense if they can’t see this going badly.
Let me guess what the impetus was. “A guy wronged me and I’m going to make sure it doesn’t ever happen again to one of my sisters...”
As if guys are the only ones to do someone wrong.
Good analysis.
Plus maybe get rich if they can eventually go public with the company.
High Talker.
That is what happened to me. Several people started calling me the C word based on a lie my ex boyfriend placed on FB.
I had to get a lawyer to stop him, took my profile down, but the damage was done and he cost me several jobs I was interviewing for at the time.
This is making me sick, especially since I have a semi common name.
Newman: In a class entirely by himself.
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