It looks like I am not the only person disturbed enough by juicycampus to write about it. New York Times writer Richard Morgan wrote a piece addressing some effects of the gossip site on campuses and students. Morgan notes that the site is not limited to harmless gossip, but can hurt students' chances of securing jobs post-graduation, and even create a campus-wide security scare.
Unfortunately, as Morgan also highlights in his article, juicycampus is not legally responsible for any comment posted on the site.
For me, the lack of responsibility juicycampus administrators will face stresses even more the importance for students to take the responsibility on themselves to not support these sites.
As Morgan also emphasizes in his March 16 article, students who continue to post potentially damaging content on juicycampus and Facebook may not fully understand the consequences until the damage happens to them.
A Crash Course in Online Gossip, by Richard Morgan: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/fashion/16juicy.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=fashion
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You're obviously passionate about this subject, as you should be, but you need to back up your argument, give the reader out there more background, and provide links. Make your points solid and strong. They are good ones.
--Prof. Flournoy
The one thing I do not like about any of those websites is that people talk so much trash and I feel your right because it is funny until something happens to them. Its called Karma and I think that eventually the creators of the website will recieve theirs one day. I wish people would man up and at least say who is talking trash instead of hidding in the shaddows.
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