JuicyCampus.com

Remember the movie Mean Girls? With Lindsay Lohan and her posse of pink plastics? Remember the book they had where they would trash everybody? Let's take that book and put it online. Let's anonymously post it on a huge public forum like JuicyCampus.com.

Good idea.

Not.

If you haven't heard about JuicyCampus, just know it's a new internet fad where anybody can go online, look up their campus and read defamatory and slanderous rumors about their peers. And it's totally anonymous. TOTALLY. I mean, it's probably easy to track an IP address and figure out exactly who is behind each post. But who has that much patience? Nobody at all.

In the past two weeks, the popularity and use of the site has absolutely skyrocketed. Sororities are slammed, fraternities are defamed, individuals are mercilessly slandered... the list goes on. To be fair, some posts are perfectly innocent - like the ones about which classes to take, which professors are good, what there's to do around campus... that sort of thing.

Apart from that, I find the site entirely deplorable and can cause serious problems on campus.

Even if someone sleeps around, drinks too much, throws up on people at parties, has a crush on a professor or whatever, I think everybody deserves their privacy and a smutty site like JuicyCampus only violates that right. I was appalled by the blatant immaturity exhibited by the students on the site who are, let's face it, adults.

I think everybody needs to grow up or use the bathroom wall like the eighth graders they are.