Technology ICK

[tamaranth]

Vanity, the latest iPhone app that's going to change how you evaluate people—or more specifically rate the hotness of the redhead eyeing you from across the bar

My translation:
- Men! unable to tell whether or not you find a woman attractive? Insult her and humiliate yourself by using an iPhone app to score her appearance from 1 to 10. For added *ICK* points, "you can save the results and share them on Facebook".

Dear friends-with-iPhones, please to be making sure your phone is insured against 'accidental' damage before pointing that thing at me.

(via feministing)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, good grief.

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Now, I translate that as saying "Are you a pathetic loser? Now you can be a really creepy pathetic loser with this new iPhone app!"

I would hope your friends with iphones would have better taste...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... or at least be a fun party trick.

It's a silly thing. It basically measures (I'm guessing) how symmetrical your face is and how that compares against some bland archetype.

It's no more scientific than astrology, biorhythms or mood stones in terms of dating, and I figure anyone that plays along with it knows it's going to be as accurate as that plastic curly fish you get in christmas crackers or those "love tester" machines in funfairs and Mo's Bar.

Do you worry more about the US though, knowing it's one of the top 100 iPhone downloads in the US?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Oh good god, I've just thought of the next iPhone App:

The Astrology Pairer.

Enter your star-sign into this app, and if you come close to someone with a compatible star-sign also using this app, you will both be notified.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Or alternatively ...

- Women! unable to tell whether or not you find a man attractive? Insult him and humiliate yourself by using an iPhone app to score his appearance from 1 to 10. For added *ICK* points, "you can save the results and share them on Facebook".

(Other combinations left as exercises to the reader.)

I'm not sure whether it's more insulting to have one of those pointed at one, or to have one of them offered to me to do the pointing.

[uitlander]

I fear you might have picked the wrong demographic.....

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Tell her you're doing field research in the name of science (and if she's still on the fence, mention that it'll help the children).

er, have you read that write-up I linked to? (It's the review I take exception to -- the actual app seems designed simply to measure attractiveness, of self or other, and is presumably available to women as well as men ...)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Or they will get to try out the new Colonoscopy app.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Given the sour face which apparently scores 8.7 on that page, I'd say the users deserve what they get.