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Peeple is boring
When Peeple entered the online limelight in October, it was instantly pilloried as an app that went too far for no good reason. It was hastily described as "Yelp for people," a tagline that's about as appealing as "dog food for people." Denizens of the internet expressed concern over the app's potential unintended consequences -- surely it would be used to harass and defame some humans, regardless of whether they signed up for the service. After months of defending, beta testing and tweaking Peeple, creators Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough released the app unto the wild this week. It's slightly different than the service they first described; it appears the founders have taken the early criticism to heart and stripped out some of the most concerning features. Unfortunately, what remains is largely useless.
Rate your friends like they're restaurants with Peeple
A 'Yelp'-style app for rating people is not a new idea, but nobody's been terrible enough to actually build one in real life -- until now. A startup company has launched an app called "Peeple" which has already raised $7.6 million in venture capital, according to the Washington Post. It lets anyone with a Facebook account and cell phone rate another person and assign them a star rating out of five in one of three categories: personal, professional and romantic. Though Peeple calls itself "a positivity app for positive people," the idea of the app is largely being panned on social media.
