College kids love - and hate - Internet gossip sites
It’s the latest college-themed site to make a splash, but unlike Facebook’s almost universal appeal, this one has been rubbing lots of people the wrong way. The web site is called Juicy Campus, and it markets itself as a place to spread “juicy” rumors and find secrets.
But nobody likes being gossiped about, never mind gossiped about on the Internet, where these things have a tendency toward permanency. There’s been considerable backlash to the site recently, which lets people post things like ?Who is the sluttiest girl????,? ?Hottest Cornell Sophomores,? and ?Biggest Cornell Cokeheads?? Today’s big topics include “ball-licking” and “anti-semitism - not cool. anti-asianism - totally acceptable.” It’s pretty much all the same on the site.
Here comes the backlash:
Not surprisingly, the Cornell Daily Sun isn’t so happy about this latest online troll-frenzy. A columnist there has suggested people stop writing but that most certainly won’t work, and in fact, it’ll probably drive more people to the site.
Facebook groups protesting the site have been started, college newspapers are writing, student governments are passing resolutions and pretty soon this whole thing is going to be huge, or people are going to decide to stop slandering their classmates online. I’m guessing it’s just going to get bigger. Remember ratemyprofessors? This is just like ‘rate my friends,’ but instead of rating, I’m going to accuse them of being a slut or a cokehead.
What can you do if you’re accused of being a slut or a cokehead on the site? Not much. They offer you the option of “giving a thumbs down” to the offending posts, but they aren’t willing to delete anything, administrators say.
We’re no strangers to campus gossip, either: College Ave. had a run-in with an anonymous blogger posting nasty things about nice people last semester. So how’d we deal with that situation? After we outed him, he quit. It works, people, it works. Just find these people and reveal them, and the world will be a less-gossipy place. Hopefully.
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