{"id":90,"date":"2008-03-03T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2008-03-03T23:57:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T06:57:40","slug":"dorm-gossip-turns-slimy-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/03\/dorm-gossip-turns-slimy-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorm Gossip Turns Slimy on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Marc Fisher at Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

T.J. Bateman had never heard of JuicyCampus.com until a friend told him he had been discussed on the Web site, which urges college students nationwide to “give us the juice.” Someone wrote, anonymously, that Bateman, a senior at the University of Virginia, is a “pretty cool dude, but I hear he is part robot.”<\/p>\n

\"Vicious<\/a>Could be worse, Bateman figures. “I thought it was pretty funny, but then I saw a post on the same page with a couple of racial epithets, and that rubbed me the wrong way. The anonymity lends itself to much more vindictive attacks.”<\/p>\n

Such as one that names another U-Va. student and says she “will sleep with any guy.” This sort of post has given JuicyCampus — which features message boards for 50 colleges, including the recent additions of U-Va. and the Naval Academy in this area — instant notoriety and the sadly resulting success.<\/p>\n

The subject of that posting, a junior at the Charlottesville campus, didn’t know that a thousand people had read the slur against her until I told her about it.<\/p>\n

“Initially, I wasn’t too concerned about it, although I did get angrier the more I thought about it,” she says. “Everyone I know feels that the Web site merely serves as an outlet for petty and immature people who have nothing better to do with their time.”<\/p>\n

Not wishing to be associated with sexual sleaziness for the rest of her life, she contacted JuicyCampus asking that her name be removed.<\/p>\n

Nothing doing. JuicyCampus guarantees anonymity to those who slime others, but disavows any obligation to those who are maligned on its pages.<\/p>\n

From the site’s FAQ:<\/p>\n

” Is the site really anonymous?”<\/p>\n

“There is no way for someone using the site to find out who you are. And we at JuicyCampus . . . prefer not to know who you are.”<\/p>\n

” How do I remove a comment I posted?”<\/p>\n

“You can’t. Once it’s out there, it’s out there.”<\/p>\n

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