The new application called Peeple may still find yourself in the testing phase, but already attracts attention and criticism both average as of Internet users. The Peeple is an application for smartphone that, when launched, will provide a platform where users can evaluate the people they know with a rating of up to five stars according to their character and past interactions they have had.
However, the project is already being criticized for objectifying people, as well as the impossibility of choosing not appear on the platform, or delete negative reviews. Many were critical to the pages of Facebook and Twitter of Peeple were, at least temporarily, taken from the air on Monday, and its creator has totally changed what he was saying about her.
“If people search both when they want to buy a car or make decisions of this kind, because they would not want to do this kind of research in other areas of your life? “argued the US newspaper Washington Post one of the application of the founders, the Canadian Julia Cordray. Meanwhile, however, it has been forced to write a publication on LinkedIn to change many of the things said in this newspaper and the BBC.
According to the initial statements of Cordray, the Peeple allows its users criticizing and assign ratings up to five stars to people they know, whether describing know personally, professionally and romantically. Thus, it is possible to criticize the bad morning mood of an ex-boyfriend, the constant availability of a university professor or a lack of punctuality of a co-worker, but it has to be done in his own name without anonymity. But you can also compliment – that’s why, now says Julia Cordray, the application was created
Cordray believes that the application is an opportunity for people to “show their personality” on the Internet.. Its co-founder, Nicole McCollough, adds that an application like Peeple can help people like her who are mothers, who want to see who they can trust their children.
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