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

[jos]

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.

 

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.

 

If you are not on Peeple yourself but others are rating you, then only positive reviews will be posted. If you have, in fact, registered, then negative reviews will be published, but only after 48 hours of being written so that you will have a chance to dispute them

 

 

I think it is unethical and illegal in many places... want to see how it develops.. there may be revenge ratings as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYPcKUWM10

source: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/30/peeple-app

 

[Lays]

terrible idea.. Some things should stay private / out of the spotlight IMO.

 

I understand some of the things that could be on there would be a good thing like knowing whether or not they've borrowed $ and not repayed etc, but at the same time eh...

[HKZeroFive]

So it's like Tinder, but more specific. Nothing like making other people feel insecure!

[Fred Castellum]

Welp... in that case I don't exist... I'm a horrid person!

[Syntaxvgm]

I smell a lawsuit 

[Fred Castellum]

I smell a lawsuit 

Just one? Expect thousands!

[Guest]

Anyone I know adds me to that app, they're losing their phone.

[Minzo]

Not touching that thing with a stick.

[Jerakl]

I can see the concept. But if you break up with someone they may review you poorly and reveal personal info.

 

I can see what it was for. You meet someone in a coffee shop and thought they were nice so you rate them or w/e

[The Pizza Thief]

I love this idea, but zero personal information, maybe a couple photos and then you just rank people without leaving any kind of reviews. 

[Guest Strangerbob]

gotta occupy the losers somehow... as it always has been the case

[Guest Generallee]

How is classifying human beings and rating them on no other basis than pure looks useful in any matter ? 

 

Oh

 

Cuz people are fucking stupid

[Beskamir]

Isn't this taken straight out of the episode of community where they rate people with meow meow beans?

[Itereus]

The people behind this seems incredibly naive. Wanting to spread love and all that, while the reality is that this app will most likely be used for trolling/scorned people.

[DigitalHermit]

Looks like it'll be time to live up to my username...

[WolfDeville]

Holy crap... I'm probably going to get shit for this but I actually thought of this idea like two weeks ago lol.

[Misanthrope]

Reading a restaurant review but thinking about people is hilarious: "Excellent treatment, very nice staff kind and attentive to your needs. A little cozy place but very chic and nice looking, took a long time to have the goods delivered but boy was it worth the wait: best I've eaten in town so far!"

[Albatross]

Social media sites...the cancer of the internet.

[IMPERIUS]

Are there nudes?

[MrRavens]

In this day and age where everyone is offended for everything, and everything must be rainbows, unicorns and everything has to be politically correct. I wonder how people are going to handle this lol. But then again, people can just not sign up. It also makes you wonder how things will smooth out, because among friends, everyone is just giving out 5 stars lol. Hopefully the vote is anonymous. I don't like how if I don't want to be apart of the app, someone can still put me on there with my phone number. I don't want any annoying texts. There's a reason I didn't sign up. And the ability to dispute negative reviews of you, I can only see this rustling everyone's' Jimmies. 

 

Let me just calm down and stop before I start flipping tables....

 

(ノ ゜Д゜)ノ ︵ ┻━┻

 

whelp too late...

[MrCthuntoo]

Great, now I don't even have to sign up to any services to have my personal details plastered onto the internet.

[Admiral Naismith]

It's not very common for me to hope something crashes, burns, and dies... But I hope this crashes, burns, and dies.

[MrStraightface]

"Made by narcissists for sociopaths" 

-PEEPLE

[patrick3027]

Anyone seen the MeowMeowBeenz episode on Community? http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/MeowMeowBeenz

 

That's exactly how this is gonna end up.

[hk29]

most of new tech is developed for this use? the millennial generation should be renamed to the "look at me while i look at myself with my head up my arse generation"