I had heard of this website before, and the premise is just ridiculous. It is a social networking/dating site but the twist is to become a member, a majority of members must approve that you are “beautiful” and vote you in. If you do not get enough votes, then are you are not allowed to become a member. This idea sounds ludicrous, but the person who created this website must have known there are enough vain, conceited people in the world to occupy his website. Kudos to him/her for making money by capitalizing on the predictable, over-indulgent, egotistical narcissists.
What makes it worse, the link below shows how the site maintains its “beautiful people”. If you don’t keep up with your “beauty”, you will get booted. Honestly, with sites like this, what is the world coming to? This is like a social networking/dating site for people who audition for the jersey shore.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/beautifulpeople-com-boots-5-000-fat-members-from-site
Albert Alquisola
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This site reminds me of one that I had seen before called hotornot.com. Although, members were not booted for not being hot. I have to say that I find it amusing that things like this have a following, but not surprised. In all honesty, sites like these are more of a mirror of our society. If people were not interested by these sort of sites, they would not have the popularity or web traffic that they get.
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