'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.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, be careful not to bait someone into a hubby trap that might endanger him.

All the best to you folks...

[mlo]

"You’re both tellin’ me that they went and made a better grade of idiot while I wasn’t looking ..."

They've gotten really good at it.

[Hoffer Rand]

I’ll take “chicks that got dumped (or cheated on) and are out for public revenge for $800, Alex”

[Black Agnes]

How long before they’re sued.

Discovery could be very fun.

[Hoffer Rand]

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.

Just automatically assuming EVERYBODY does texting. And what if the person doesn't want their cell phone number and name dumped into this database? Pretty sure you're not allowed to use my information without my permission.

[sheana]

I think hubby would be fine. Lol

[Robert DeLong]

That’s correct, if people borrow your phone of worse yet, hack your phone, and start entering negative comments of those in your contact list, you may find yourself hit with defamation lawsuits. Also the owners of the site may become complicit accomplices in the defamation lawsuit. I see no redeemable aspects to this site except for the occasional positives that may be said about some people.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m glad Sheana. Want your family to always be safe.