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Description: An extremely negative response may have derailed the launch of people-rating app Peeple.

Source: Tech News World

Date: October 7, 2015

Peeple

 

Canadian businesswoman Julia Cordray’s plan to launch Peeple, a Yelp-like app that would let people post reviews about other people, has drawn fierce criticism in the tech press and the blogosphere, including a petition against the app’s launch and a Twitter campaign to boycott it. Read More

Questions for discussion:

1. What do you think about the purpose of this app being “to find the good in people”?

2. How would you feel if you found reviews about yourself on an app such as this? Even in they were positive?

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