Blippy: Telling the World About the Stuff You Buy

[Cherry Cola]

Hurray, the internet has ruined Christmas!

Wow, I didn't even think of that aspect of it. I mean, before I just thought it was ungodly stupid. Now it's ungodly stupid AND a killjoy.

It also killed birthdays and, possibly, a couple of anniversaries.

Depending on who the gift was bought for, could even kill marriages.
"Dear? Why does Blippy say you bought a green negligee?"
"Uh.. that was for you hunny-buns.. it was going to be a surprise.."
"Our anniversary was last month, my birthday was two days ago, and you know I am not a size 0.."

Dear god, this site is evil!!!

 

[jimduckie]

hey blippy , it's the repo depot ,here to take back what ya bought ,sry it's my job

 

[FallenRainbows]

Well considering how easy it is to hack those places... Well I'm just waiting till the guys at 4chan get a hold of it.

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[sub]All is blind in love and... social networking?"
~Me[/sub]

 

[Plurralbles]

Blippy- even more for pretentious pricks than twitter and full of people who think others care about what they're buying, let alone what their last thought was.

 

[Outlaw Torn]

Imagine if EA or Activision started using it? You could see how they are getting on in their monopoly war every time they buy up other developers, studios or gamers' souls.

 

[SharedProphet]

This is subtly hilarious, in my opinion. The openness is cool and theoretically social pressure might keep you from overspending...? But since you can separate payment methods into secret and non-secret, it seems like it would just motivate people to buy more things that they can't really afford just for social status.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Why would people want to give up their privacy like this? Unbelievable...

It's their right to share this personal info with the world...but why would they want to?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I just don't get it. Has the concept of privacy become so alien to the average mouth-breather that nothing in their lives is exempt from being broadcast from one end of the internet to the other?

No, it's that your average mouth-breather has been brought up to believe that we are worthless unless other people are paying attention to us. (see also Paris Hilton, et al.) Do you think Twitter, Facebook, etc. would have exploded the way they did if your Average Joe/Jane didn't think it was anybody's business what they were up to at the moment?

Hurray, the internet has ruined Christmas!

Cripes, I didn't even THINK of that. And when a cynical agnostic like me has to wonder "Is nothing sacred anymore?", then you know a line somewhere has been crossed.

 

[Enigmers]

"Okay, so all I need to do to sign up for a blippy account is to give you my credit card information so you can tell everyone what I'm buying? That sounds like a great idea!"

 

[Fayathon]

And these are the people that will be bitching about having their identities stolen when someone hacks the Blippy servers and gets their info. How's that saying go "A fool and his money are soon parted," right?

 

[hypothetical fact]

Who needs spyware anymore.

 

[Earthmonger]

Blippy is obviously working for the antichrist. The end is nigh. Rejoice!

 

[Bat Vader]

I feel bad for the people that somehow feel their lives aren't complete without the world paying attention to them.

Than again, it is pretty funny when they get all mad because the world isn't paying attention them.

Blippy User:"Now the world will have to pay attention to me!"

Random Person:"No, we don't."

Blippy User: Hangs themself with mouse cord.

 

[Mekado]

The only thing i like about his is that you can link your cards and if one of them got lost or something you'd see where and when something was bought by the thief.

Which is exactly what your credit emitter would do if you call about a purchase you didn't make

This site is stupid, why on earth people have the need to be such exibitionists is beyond me.

 

[BillBarilko]

Why I am thinking of zombo-com after reading that?

I've been working with teh interwebs for over a decade, and this is the first I've ever heard of zombo.com - very nice! I'm hooked.

Blippy, on the other hand, is certain to earn a place among history's dumbest online ventures.

 

[bermanj]

Check out this article on how much easier Blippy makes phishing attacks. http://tinyurl.com/y8zw5p8