Sexual Secrets of JuicyCampus.com

hahahaha ohhhh... sigh. "that slut" thinks that maybe you just didn't get it.

dude if that slut really did have sex with a whole bunch of guys, than why can't someone just tell the truth?

Can you get Gossip Girl off the air, too? Please!!

It's great to see people standing up for themselves and potentially many others. This sort of blatant defamation shouldn't be allowed to derail the lives of students.

props x 348954357349058 to keith and kasia (who is also quite the badass) for this whole piece- it turned out SO well- we should all be proud of ourselves.

Hey vegas, thanks. These two can be dissected as separate or packaged together as abuse of power.

The same triggers that make people want to submit this attack on fellow humans is my concern. There is something wrong with the person who does these types of attacks and when it becomes such a distraction then lives are affected.

It's like handing out firearms that shoot scarlet letters on people on campus. Once a few people shoot and see what happens everyone else will before they get shot at.

It's a discussion I was having with a psychologist who was doing a study with high-school kids and internet technologies.

She was surprised by the results. It boils down to the addiction of power. The internet is a broadcasting device and there are megaphones everywhere and always someone who is willing to listen. The first chance most subjects had to bring down a fellow classmate - they did. They had choices to donate time, donate money (in a pot they were granted), get answers to upcoming tests, research TV shows, email friends, bitch slap friends, change rankings of classmates, or post anonymous things about people they knew.

Guess which ones over 90% chose?

Great link, jaztuck. After reading the article and watching this pod, I think there is some distinction that can be drawn between anonymous trolling and "anonymous" gossip about real people that you interact with on a campus. I'm not really sure what it is exactly, but there is a difference between affecting people that you don't know (hacking, racist comments, etc.) and purposefully posting information - true or not - about people that you face daily. The first speaks to anarchy; the latter to betrayal.

The internet used to be a beautiful thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html

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Eh, there are too many variables in this, so people are just attacking what's easy to attack.

Is it human nature to fuck people over if you know you'll get away with it?

Are we so repressed in normal social life that given an open channel, all we can do is rage dump?

How much of the site is people's honest opinions that they couldn't express without the shield of anonymity?

UrbanOutfitter says the site can ruin lives, but I have to wonder if it isn't our own fault for trusting an anonymous source in place of the person they're talking about.

Really, folks, it's all about signal-to-noise ratio. In everyday life, it's 1% honesty, 99% courtesy. On the internet I'd say it's about 50% honesty, 50% hostility.

This isn't kindergarten. You can't make everyone play nice. But if you can put on your big boy pants and deal with it, it's a much better environment.

Big thanks to Sarah, who's a badass, for doing this video with us.

Thank you for making this. People need to know how awful this site truly is.

I attend Southern Methodist University, a school that participates in Juicy Campus' site. Last year, a girl was sexually assaulted in a fraternity house. She initially took her case to the campus police. But the members of the fraternity "anonymously" posted a massive amount of comments stating that the girl was a liar and a slut. They made threats and completely trashed the girl's reputation to the point where she was so scared that she withdrew her case from the police.

Another post asked people to list everyone on campus who uses cocaine. Students were only too eager to respond, coming up with a pretty big list of names, many of whom were not drug users at all. But anyone has access to the site- parents, employers... everyone. Anyone can see what's been written about you.

Juicy Campus doesn't just ruin people's reputations or allow cowards to spread rumors under the guise of anonymity. It can ruin lives.