PEEPLE is terrifying, and so are people.

[Richter888]

So, am I alone in sharing this sentiment? I'm glad real people also agree this is a bad idea. Social media is bad enough as it is, now add in a review service that is used on people. God its scary.

I know people do these things already, but somehow its OK for other people to create your profile for you and put up a rating. That's a huge concern.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...p-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/

 

[Blk04L]

Heard about that on the radio.

Hopefully it fails/gets shutdown

 

[Led_Zep]

Horrible idea.

 

[hoamskilet]

Yeah I don't see that lasting. What an awful, and quite frankly, bizarre idea.

 

[offroadkarter]

Reviews have already been left for the co-founders of this app, you can imagine how thats going.


I love how you can add people who aren't in the database by providing the person cell phone number. Yeah, I bet that information won't get sold to a third party at all!

 

[truefiveo]

I see an increase of online related homicides if this takes off.

Maybe that's a good thing...

 

[Steve1578]

The only thing I can concentrate on is the amount of times "people" was used in this thread. oke:

It's a pretty crazy idea but I feel like it's going to catch on. I think our society is that pitiful that we will resort to rating people on an app.

 

[nxhappy]

W t f ....

 

[Stateguy]

Lol, there use to be a website similar to this for college students called juicy campus.... It did not make it long.

 

[SID297]

Sounds like fertile fields for lawsuits.

 

[Richter888]

Yea, I just read my op again. I used people a lot lol. I was kinda dumbfounded when I made that post.

 

[truefiveo]

This isn't anything new though....

This site has been around for years

http://thedirty.com/

 

[Sn95Snake]

This is just weird...

 

[HudsonFalcon]

Sounds like fertile fields for lawsuits.

This. I see so many defamation of character lawsuits in their future.

 

[Mr. Mach-ete]

I see an increase of online related homicides if this takes off.

Maybe that's a good thing...

LOL, best comment yet.

 

[vettez062002]

now the internet really is serious business

 

[SID297]

This. I see so many defamation of character lawsuits in their future.

Problem is there's typically no money to be had in such a suit.

 

[Rex Racer]

From the article:

"Positive ratings post immediately; negative ratings are queued in a private inbox for 48 hours in case of disputes. If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews."

I am going to create fake positive reviews:

"14 inch dick!"
"Dances the Lambada!"
"Is a millionaire!"

EDIT:

Snopes has some good info. It may be a viral marketing campaign.

http://m.snopes.com/2015/10/01/peeple/

 

[CobraBob]

Yeah, that Snopes article was well written. Sure does sound like some attempt at a strange marketing campaign, but there are more unanswered questions as there are answered questions. If it is legit, and I have my doubts, I don't see Apple approving the app for their App Store. Very bad and twisted idea behind it. Had to laugh at the fact that the "creators" were deleting negative comments about this app while the app itself doesn't allow comment deletions, although you can notify the app owners if you deem a posted review comment to be in error. Horribly stupid idea. But the evolution of social media should have seen this coming. :nonono:

 

[derklug]

This app will save people the 37 seconds it takes to find out what an asshole I am.