Seriously, WTF is this garbage? What idiot would sign up for this crap?
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With the app's debut, the company is trying to present itself as having a more positive aim and image, with gestures toward anti-bullying and settings for hiding unwanted recommendations. However, there are still valid concerns that the company is planning to profit by selling access to the hidden negative reviews left on its platform.
In case you missed it the first time around, the Calgary-based startup comes from Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough — both non-technical founders who outsourced the app's development to Y Media Labs. The app was described as a "Yelp for humans." That is, you can sign up to leave reviews of anyone you know — from co-workers and bosses to exes and friends or even local service pros.
McCullough's LinkedIn profile said she was inspired to create Peeple as a means of vetting people, like contractors, babysitters or neighbors. Of course, services for rating professionals and businesses, including Google's business reviews, Yelp, ZocDoc, Angie's List and others have existed for some time. Peeple's differentiator was that it wanted to venture into the personal space, as well.
It was unclear at the time if the founders were genuinely naive of the problems such an app could incite, or if they were smartly playing up the "all press is good press" angle to encourage viral buzz about the service.
But when the app didn't launch as expected in late 2015, it was written off as vapor and simply forgotten.
Now Peeple has actually gone live.
n a press release, the founders wrote of how much they were harassed following the bad press the app received, which they said was "ironic" as the complaints involved concerns about the potential for cruel bullying, threats and abuse that could take place on its platform.
The company also said it made several changes in light of those concerns, including giving users full control over what goes on their profile, offering the ability to deactivate their profile and more. The company noted, too, that "no one can add you to the app" — making it sound as if being reviewed on Peeple is an opt-in experience.
That's not entirely true, however.
Peeple's own website says you can still write "recommendations" (i.e. reviews, but not necessarily positive ones) for anyone who's not on the app, then choose to invite that person to join Peeple.
In other words, even if you're not participating, someone could write your review. Sure, that review might not be public, but it exists in a digital format on the company's servers.
If you choose to join Peeple, you can decide which reviews appear on your profile.
Called the "Truth License," Peeple says that paying users would be able to read anything that has been written about a person, whether or not the person published the reviews on their profile.
Or, to sum up: Peeple's plan is to profit by selling access to everyone's negative reviews.
Co-founder Cordray clarified to TechCrunch that the Truth License is not actually live, but is something the company is "considering" as a future feature alongside other in-app purchases like in-app search credits, gifts and personality testing.
That being said, the fact that it's on the table at all — and promoted in the company's press release — should give users pause for concern.
Weak anti-bullying measures, too
Not only that, but the company doesn't seem to have a solid plan to proactively prevent cyber bullying through the service. Its terms apparently prohibit things like "profanity, bullying, health references, disability references, confidential information, mentioning other people in a recommendation that you are not currently writing a recommendation for, name calling, degrading comments, abuse, derogatory comments, sexual references, racism, legal references, hateful content, sexism" and more.
But Peeple's Terms are hard to read, as they're only linked to in the app itself, and are several pages long. But this snippet should give you an idea of what Peeple is really up to, noting that:
"Once Content is published it may not be able to be removed," and that by joining, "you hereby irrevocably grant to Peeple the continuous, non-exclusive, royalty-free right to use your Content for any purpose whatsoever and in any format. These rights shall be assignable, transferable, and licensable by Peeple."
Um, no?
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One possible spot of hope is that Apple has a policy against apps that promote harassment (i.e. Section 14.1 of its Review Guidelines), so it's possible that the company will actually step in at some point to ban Peeple from its App Store.
Peeple is live on the iOS App Store for the time being.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/08/controversial-people-rating-app-peeple-goes-live-has-a-plan-to-profit-from-users-negative-reviews/
NO!!
I don't understand the whole premise. It's just unadulterated narcissistic bullshit.
It's like Rate Me as an app.
It's going to be a vessel for libel.
Those rules sound familiar..
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Of course it is Renee. However, once when I was younger I posted a pic on one of them.
So when someone posts a review, is that then called peeping? ac_unsure
It's PEEing when you write one.
It's PEEPing when you read one.
Linkedin is my favourite social media.
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Of course it is Renee.
Were you naked? ac_biggrin
Saying stuff about somone without definate proof is slander. That web site will be sued pretty quick lol
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There is no need for it other than to slander someone..
There is already Yelp for businesses.
Besides easter bunny, is anyone else a regular Twitter user?
I can say I'm definitely not.
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I don't tweet either.
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Twitter is a tool of the devil. I have an account but I haven't been active with it in over 2 years.
I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
I have 6.77 million followers on Twitter.
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That's because you had a reality show.
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It's PEEPing when you read one.
That's a bit unsettling. ac_unsure
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I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
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I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
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It cannot be anything else. One hundred and forty characters of narcissism or soundbites.
Following people on Twitter reduces one's IQ.
I don't use twit twat, too annoying for me.
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Don't blame ya Annie.
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I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
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It cannot be anything else. One hundred and forty characters of narcissism or soundbites.
Following people on Twitter reduces one's IQ.
Actually I find that having only 140 characters causes me to refine my thoughts and word things far more precisely than I would otherwise. I find it stimulating.
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I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
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It cannot be anything else. One hundred and forty characters of narcissism or soundbites.
Following people on Twitter reduces one's IQ.
Actually I find that having only 140 characters causes me to refine my thoughts and word things far more precisely than I would otherwise. I find it stimulating.
It's the equivalent of a commercial slogan. But, it works on the intellectually lazy. As someone else here would say, it is gummy worms for the mind.
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I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
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It cannot be anything else. One hundred and forty characters of narcissism or soundbites.
Following people on Twitter reduces one's IQ.
Actually I find that having only 140 characters causes me to refine my thoughts and word things far more precisely than I would otherwise. I find it stimulating.
It's the equivalent of a commercial slogan. But, it works on the intellectually lazy. As someone else here would say, it is gummy worms for the mind.
All depends on who you follow.
//https://twitter.com/bgreene/status/702971674665357312
//https://twitter.com/MattStrassler
//https://twitter.com/lirarandall
//https://twitter.com/LKrauss1
The more I read up on this Peeple app, the more idiotic I think the concept is.
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Time will tell. But you half to remember that this planet is 3/4s populated by idiots so it will probably be a big hit.
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It's a way to destroy for Peeple to destroy people's reputations.
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I found it to be boring, annoying and an overall waste of time.
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It cannot be anything else. One hundred and forty characters of narcissism or soundbites.
Following people on Twitter reduces one's IQ.
Actually I find that having only 140 characters causes me to refine my thoughts and word things far more precisely than I would otherwise. I find it stimulating.
It's the equivalent of a commercial slogan. But, it works on the intellectually lazy. As someone else here would say, it is gummy worms for the mind.
All depends on who you follow.
//https://twitter.com/bgreene/status/702971674665357312
//https://twitter.com/MattStrassler
//https://twitter.com/lirarandall
//https://twitter.com/LKrauss1
They are absolutely gifted human beings. There's no question about that. But, if someone wants to learn they should research their work not follow their tweets. I maintain Twitter followers are intellectually lazy.
I feel the same way about people who stereotype Twitter users.
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I maintain Twitter followers are intellectually lazy.
Which is what most people are today. They don't want to fucking think. They like simple single sentence answers to complex questions.
It is actually harder to be concise than verbose.
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It's hard to learn anything of substance on Twitter.
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It's hard to learn anything of substance on Twitter.
I am sure it is. I don't bother with it for that very reason - no substance.
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It's hard to learn anything of substance on Twitter.
I am sure it is. I don't bother with it for that very reason - no substance.
BULLSEYE!!