Last October, when word leaked about an app that ranks people called Peeple, the news was met with utter disdain. The Washington Post called it “the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’.” The original version of the app allowed a user to add a person to his/her Peeple database and rank him or her by using a star system, similar to the one that movie critics use to rate films. It sounded like a digital version of those ‘burn books’ kept by high school girls with ratings for all of the guys.
The app is launching today, available only from the Apple App Store to iOS users in North America.
