A Frightening New Service

[wanderer03]

Normally, I like my posts to be absent of hyperbole but I read about this new service on CNN called Peeple. Essentially, this is a service that lets people anonymously rate each other and this is frightening because of the amount of personal, professional, and psychological damage that can be done. The idea of rating people like you would a business is astoundingly bad and some of the most vulnerable are people with disabilities. Many of us have been mistreated by society and employers and the last thing we need is a large amount of potentially negative, opinion-based data being easily searchable.

 

[Ste11aeres]

CREEPY

 

[Judge]

Such an app will probably be optimal for sixth-graders and lawyers specializing in litigation.

 

[wanderer03]

I'm hoping this dies ignominously. Of all of the bad ideas out there, this one takes the taco.

 

[Myway]

I agree. This does sound very creepy. I hope it goes away very fast.

 

[Ste11aeres]

I'm almost a bit angry at CNN for writing about it. It sounds like another internet site that could easily die or at least be unimportant as a result of underuse, not being known, and lack of publicity-so why is CNN giving it publicity?

 

[wanderer03]

I'm almost a bit angry at CNN for writing about it. It sounds like another internet site that could easily die or at least be unimportant as a result of underuse, not being known, and lack of publicity-so why is CNN giving it publicity?

This makes me angry too.

 

[DC1346]

Oh geez ... another app for the aspiring bully.

(Sigh)

 

[Datura]

This reminds me of Honesty Box, an app on facebook that allowed people to leave anonymous messages for other users. Invariably the users who installed this app were extremely insecure and the people who responded were bullies who saw an opportunity to troll someone with zero repercussions.

My only hope for this website (short of them getting shut down in a lible suit) is that people will realize how distorted and unrealiable such reviews are and just ignore it.

 

[wanderer03]

I think there is already some strong backlash against it. Best we can hope for is that it dies on the table.

 

[SenorDomino]

I saw some posts about that one of the app's founders is not happy with the negative backlash and is trying to censor it. Apparently she's been asking how to turn off comments on the app's public updates.

The judge doesn't like being judged.

 

[Flinty]

Good-ish news: the CBC was reporting this afternoon that the "service" had been shut down, at least for the time being, and the founder had disappeared from social media (lucky her).

 

[wanderer03]

Good-ish news: the CBC was reporting this afternoon that the "service" had been shut down, at least for the time being, and the founder had disappeared from social media (lucky her).

That's good news [emoji3]

 

[Ravkrat]

I have two flags that I fly at any and all services like the one you mentioned, one flag I call left the other right .