A great way to have your self esteem crushed! (amihotornot.com)

Member Name: kenigma

Product:	amihotornot.com
Date:	08/03/01 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun for a while

Disadvantages: Novelty wears off

Hihihi readers. And it's another late night/early morning review from me. This time my victim is AmIHotOrNot.com. The idea is a simple one - go to the website, rate people's pictures on how hot they are. You can even post your own picture to be rated.

It's quite a novelty at first, and you spend hours clicking through, laughing at the humourous ones people have obviously posted as a joke, and going "Phwoarrr" at the good looking ones. The problem is, when people are doing this, they tend to rate at either end of the scale coz they are just having a laugh. So if you were to actually post your picture, then you're either gonna get an extremely big ego, or have it entirely crushed.

What I found quite amusing was that when I had long hair I had a rating of about 3.5 or something, then once I had it cut and posted a picture I got up to 7!
It's a great little site for a laugh and to while away hours when there's nothing better to do on the net, but you could use your time a lot more constructively - like writing Ciao reviews and getting paid for it etc.

It's spawned some interesting copycat sites, the most amusing of which is AmIGothOrNot.com where you rate people on their Gothness.

Having criticised the ratings system, I know a bunch of students from my university who posted pictures of all the lecturers and kept a league table which was quite amusing ;o)

Take a look if you're really bored, but it's not going to hold your attention for very long.

Ken

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