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[mojothehelpermonkey]

The tv show Community did an episode where they beta tested app like this on the community college campus where the show takes place. By the end of the episode, it was basically like the Hunger Games with the 5s ruling the others.

[happyhoix]

Oh great another useless app.

Too creepy, too much like trying to get a seat at the cool kid's table in school - and I stopped worrying about that crap about 30 years ago, when I graduated.

Too bad we don't put as much energy into trying to cure cancer as we do with creating stupid apps.

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Oct 2, 2015 11:52:01 GMT -5 hoops902 said:

Oct 2, 2015 11:42:33 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

It sounds like a silly idea to me. Who would take it seriously other than maybe kids? I could see it being a problem if people posted outright lies about someone though. Now, that could be serious.

Wouldn't single people probably take it seriously? Google someone, find their Peeple profile written by bitter ex's, then avoid them like the plague? Or people looking for jobs. One more place for people to write negative stuff about you isn't going to help anything if it takes off. Those with jobs and partners probably don't get as affected.

I'm single, and no I wouldn't take a site like that seriously. What people I know say about a person is one thing, what random people on the internet whose credibility I have no idea about say about a person (good or bad) is different. If I know something about the person saying these things about the person, I can get an idea of how much of it might be true. Just because an ex is bitter doesn't always mean everything happened the way he/she says it did. I guess I see it that way because people have spread outright lies about me IRL before.

I can see why employers check things like Facebook, as far as I know, people are in control of what shows up on their Facebook pages. This new thing sounds like something where an individual has no control over what's said about them and no way to dispute it if it's not true. It sounds like it's potentially a bunch of "he-say/she-say" stuff to me and that's not something an employer should give a lot of credibility to by itself.