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Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not
You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it. When the app does launch, probably in late November, you will be able to assign reviews and one- to five-star ratings to everyone you know...
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This is a lawsuit waiting to happen, their whole business model seems based on enabling bullying and defamation.
This is fucking awful. The minute my name shows up on that app I'm going to start looking for legal options. Who the hell thought building this tool would be a good idea? I can't imagine it being used for anything but harassment. Ever had a bad day? Too bad. Whoever you may have slighted just made sure that slight is going to be the first google result for your name now.
Seems like the founders are not happy about unwanted feedback on their facebook page: image
Don't they see where this is going? Ready to watch this crash and burn
Why doesn't she use the feedback they're getting to her advantage?
What if the feedback she gets is "Don't release this evil app"?
These are two terrible people. Period.
"Cordray sees no reason you wouldn’t want to “showcase your character” "
Somebody is going to have fun with that.