Can you imagine being kicked off an online dating and social networking website for being too fat? Well, thousands of Americans, Canadians and Brits can. BeautifulPeople.com got rid of 5 000 of its members because they had picked up weight over the holiday season.
But it wasn’t the website’s management that had done the axing, it was the members themselves. Apparently BeautifulPeople.com only allows new members if existing ones think they are attractive enough – so new members are vetted by current members and their highly subjective ideals of what is beautiful.
After the estimated 5 000 now excluded members posted holiday pictures of themselves, in which it appeared that they had gained weight, their fellow members who police the site felt it necessary to “maintain” the site’s “high standards”.
“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld,” Robert Hintze, the website’s founder told the BBC. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”
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Incredible… it’s high school “sensibilities” gone web 2.0
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