TTLY review

 The TTLY app by Jenny Lam, Javier Saez, Will Sauser, Isaiah Barnes is a very interesting app. It involves the idea of getting to know people that you own your own would probably never meet. I know there a lot of people on a college campus and at most big universities you don’t see a third of the people that attends the school during your entire college career. People are so sucked and glued in on their cellphones that they forget how to enjoy certain moments without it. The commercial the group used in their presentation was a dead one with how we live our lives now. Things like birthday parties and simply going out to dinner with friend’s turns into a phone watching contest. If this cycle continues then eventually speaking in person will soon be unheard of.

It’s true with the old saying birds of a feather, flock together.  Simply meaning that people usually hang around people that are similar to them or they have a lot of things in common. Not only is that a great idea itself but the fact that is anonymous is even better. Once again in today society a lot of people only want to know you skin deep, meaning if you look or dress a certain way then that determines whether or not you guys can be friends. This app allows you to get outside of the people that you are comfortable with and expand your horizon some.

The issue I see with is app is the rating system. I think the rating can potentially handicap the main goal of the app which is to go out to meet people. In detail, there would be people that would go to meet and act unlike themselves because they do not want a bad rating. In my opinion this would eventually make it very similar to various social media app that are already available. Meaning people would just competing to get a certain rating status. Then eventually the grouping of high rating people vs the lower rating people would the ongoing battle. Which reminds me of the episode that I watched in the Netflix series black mirror, where every encounter people had was rated by someone. And they had the problem of finding their identity through a rating. Now, I do not think that the rating system will become that problematic as it was in the show. But, it is something to think about.