The United States led the list of ousted members with 1,520 people being told to leave the social network. The site also let go of 832 people from the U.K. and 533 from Canada. Russia lost the fewest people with just 88 being told to find a new social network.
"Every year we see that some of our members from western cultures eat and drink to excess over the holidays and clearly their looks suffer," Hodge said in a statement. "The USA has been grossly over-indulging since Thanksgiving--it's no wonder that so many members have been expelled from the network. We hope they will be back after shedding the festive pounds."
"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," BeautifulPeople.com founder Robert Hintze said in a statement. He went on to say that allowing those members to stay on the site "is a direct threat to [the company's] business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded."
Story here. Website here.
From the website:
BeautifulPeople is the first community of its kind. To become a
member, applicants are required to be voted in by existing members of
the opposite sex. Members rate all new applicants over a 48 hour period
based on whether or not they find the applicant ‘beautiful’. Should
applicants secure enough positive votes from members, they will be
granted a full membership to the BeautifulPeople Network.
The vote is fair and democratic.
BeautifulPeople does not define beauty it simply gives an accurate representation of what society's ideal of beauty is.
What did Groucho Marx say? Oh yeah, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." Darn! I guess I can't join.
