Why not rate people like we rate businesses? #peeple is the absolute worst idea ever #creepy #surveillance #privacy https://t.co/BGq5t9FH1t
– David Murakami Wood (@murakamiwood) September 30, 2015
Interesting article on the Washington Post site, tweeted by David Murakami Wood (above), that talks about a service/app called “Peeple” that seeks to be a “Yelp for people” – to enable us to ‘rate’ and ‘review’ one another… A market-driven death-knell for treating one another like ‘people’ (rendering the name rather ironic) and another attempt to pull a further aspect of ‘ordinary’ life into the attention economy. This is an attempted renegotiation of the ‘normative’, what Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward, in their book Blue Jeans, describe as the sense in which “the expectation that actions within a social field are likely to be judged as right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate, proper or transgressive”. What if reviewing one another became ‘normal’..?(!!) *sigh*
Anne Galloway tweeted a link to the following post published on Vice that argues that Peeple is about employers getting us to become self-policing ideal candidates: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/peeple-is-for-employers-not-people