Juicy Campus might ruin your life

Just recently i heard word of a website called JuicyCampus.com, a site where college students can anonymously gossip and spread rumors about their fellow collegiate classmates at their school. With only about 50 universities on the site now, it is quickly growing and becoming more and more popular, which just might be the scariest thing I can imagine.

Think about it: you’re a freshman in college, you’re going to all your classes, eating healthy, making friends, calling your parents once a week to ensure that their $40,000 isn’t being wasted, and one day you wake up and apparently you’re the biggest slut on campus. Everyone’s talking about it. Your social life is destroyed. Juicy Campus has ruined your life.

Here’s an excerpt from the Associated Press:

In campus debates over Internet freedom, students normally take the side of openness and access. This time, however, student leaders, newspaper editorials and posters on the site are fighting back — with some even asking administrators to ban JuicyCampus. It’s a kind of plea to save the students, or at least their reputations, from themselves.

“It is an expression from our student body that we don’t want this junk in our community,” said Andy Canales, leader of the student government at Pepperdine, which recently voted 23-5 to ask for a ban.

The vote came after a long and emotional debate on the limits of free speech, and was swayed by stories from students such as Haley Frazier, a junior residential adviser. She had recently come across a teary transfer student who had been humiliated on the site barely a week after arriving on campus.

This just might be the worst thing to happen to online college social networking since the advent of Facebook and the likes. And those other sites aren’t even that bad! At least their goal isn’t solely to encourage anonymous gossip and shit talking, the seeds to utterly tearing apart and destroying our beloved college community as we know it.