There are a lot of free apps out there, apps for just about anything: banking, coupons, rewards, games, even an app that turns your phone into a flashlight. Seriously, my hubby used that for a while. If you’re someone who just NEEDS to know if people think you’re hot…or not, you can check out the Hot or Not! app.
Hot or Not! is a free app available for iPad, iPhones, and PC via facebook. For this post I’m going to focus on the iPhone app because that’s what I tried out. The app downloaded quickly on my iPhone 4s. When I first opened up the app it displayed a picture to vote on. I couldn’t really find the directions at first but it seemed to be pretty self explanatory. There’s a heart if you like the pic, an “X” if you don’t. I tried to vote to test it out. I couldn’t vote until I added my own picture(s). This is my tip when using the app, there is a deselect button at the top. When you go to add your pictures, all your pictures are selected. I personally would not want pics of my kids or other family member in this app. I deselected all then selected one of just me. Here is a screen shot of this. I circled the deselect button in pink. I was trying to manually deselect pics until I saw that button.
Ok once you choose your photo you go into the app. You put in info like your first name, age, and if you’re male or female. That’s the only things I had to input. It automatically had me rating guys I’m assuming because I had put in that I was female. Most of the pictures were legitimate but there were a few funny ones thrown in there. I’m guessing they don’t want that in that but it made me think for a minute. I chose a screen shot of one of those pics mostly because I didn’t want to be posting someone else’s picture on my blog without their permission.
If you’d like to try the Hot or Not App for yourself you can download it free here: http://www.tryhotornot.com/ Hot or Not! is also holding a sweepstakes where you can win $1000! Who couldn’t use that right?! Enter the sweepstakes for yourself: http://www.apptism.com/sweepstakes
My initial apprehension was, I’m happily married and really the only one I care thinks I’m “hot” is my husband. I also had to wonder about the self esteem of some, that might get more “nots” than others. In the end though you can only hit the heart or the “x”. There doesn’t seem to be a way to see who hearted or “x”‘d your picture. There doesn’t seem to be a way for people to contact you either which was another concern I had. I didn’t want date invites or mean or vulgar comments sent my way but those worries were alleviated when I saw that the app is pretty simply, a voting system.
**This post was brought to you by Hot or Not! app**
