The best thing about any new social network or app is how easy it is for the media to tag it ‘The [BLANK] for [BLANK]’.
The Tinder for restaurants. The Airbnb for pets. The Uber for coffee. These are all sentences that someone working for a new or old media organisation has probably uttered earnestly at some point in their existence.
Next up is ‘Peeple’, which lets you assign ratings to anyone and everyone you meet. It’s a kind of on-demand sociopathy or digitised playground bullying.
It’s the Yelp for humans, according to the Washington Post. Of course it can also be described as the IMDb for friends, the TripAdvisor for acquaintances, or that app where you remotely shoot deer at a nature reserve, but for close personal relationships.
But Peeple reminds us of something else, too…
It seems we weren’t the only ones to make the connection…
https://twitter.com/elenacresci/status/649483946149982208
This Peeple app sounds like MeowMeowBeenz from that Community episode. Shit. Better stock up on tinned food and survival skills.
— Nick Bryan (@NickMB) October 1, 2015
Peeple is literally exactly like Community's MeowMeowBeenz except the real-world consequences could be thousands times worse.
— Tori Centanni (@toricentanni) October 1, 2015
