Getupp app can help your search for public-humiliation motivation

Will Brinson

Screen shot 2011 03 23 at 12.21.07 AM 640x320 Getupp app can help your search for public humiliation motivation

Motivation in the form of public humiliation’s seen a pretty big boom thanks to social media: #TweetYourWeight is perhaps the best example of people awkwardly throwing themselves out to the public eye in a hope they won’t be too embarrassed.

Now, naturally, there’s an app for that. It’s called “Getupp” and it uses location-based technology to determine whether or not you actually follow through on your commitment.

Getupp also uses Facebook — the most dangerous of possible public humiliation arenas — to ensure that if you fail at your respective task, you’ll get mocked ruthlessly by your friends.

Here’s how it works: you make a time and location commitment at Getupp (it’ll require your Facebook login), it then announces this commitment to your friends (and lets them vote on whether you’ll keep it or not!), and when the time comes for you to be where you’re supposed to be, doing what you’re supposed to be doing, you fire up the iPhone app and “check in.”

If you’re where you’re supposed to be, doing what you’re supposed to be doing, everyone will probably get angry because they can’t mock you. (Or maybe be happy for you, if you have nicer friends than me.)

And if you don’t fulfill the commitment, you get destroyed by your friends.

Say if you’re trying to do something like lose weight. You make it to your runs, and everyone gets to see a slimmer you, your self esteem rises and you’ll probably get a bunch of “Likes.”

Or, hopefully, you fail miserably in your attempts to keep your commitments, and everyone gets to crush you for being a fatty.

Really, it’s a win-win for everyone involved.

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