The cloolessness is astoundingly clooless
I daresay most people that may be reading this will probably have heard about the really dire projected Peeple app: which lets people rate people. Any ol' people rate any ol' people they know, where 'know' means they have their mobile phone number.
Apart from the whole UGH factor of treating people like businesses or gadgets...
There is a good deal of guff from the founders of this misguided enterprise about 'positivity', but, really:
It's massively and possibly data-protection breaching misconceived, in that people can put other people into the app, whether they consent or not.
Even if you acc-en-tuate the pos-i-tive:
a) it sounds quite disastrously stream-crossing (a good part of the LinkedIn sexist comment hoohah was because, inappropriate for a professional-dealings site).
b) As I have heretofore remarked, even compliments may be backhanded, inappropriate, or downright offensive.
Also, these proponents of lovely transparency have apparently been taking a machete to adverse tweets and FB comments, stomping their feet and going, 'tis too a good idea!!!'.
The cod stocks are in danger, folks.
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