by Ruby Patel
Every watch the show gossip girls, now there is an actually website that encompasses the basic idea behind this popular show. Just log on to juicycampus.com and you can look up any interesting gossip about GW. When scanning this website I because sucked into the never-ending random information about students on campus. I was shocked to find out that student on campus were writing stories about my dorm and that blogs discussing my friends and actins on campus.
In my opinion internet gossip sites stem from lack of stimulation within the society. Why do people turn to the internet and leave blogs discussing and often time defaming other people and their actions? I think that it is ridiculous how popular this website is and especially how expansive the information posted on it is. It ranges from gossip about main campus, the Mount Vernon campus, students, professors, and even administration. How does the internet facilitate such information and its popularization? Do you think these and other gossip sites are necessary or at the very least do they have another purpose other than mindless entertainment?
3 Comments
December 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm
This site is ridiculous. However, I have been to it a couple of times to see what it was all about. It really is more destructive that constructive. Most of the material that is posted is in a spiteful manor and frankly mean. It is sites that Juicy Campus that mocks our culture and really questions where we are going as a society. I wrote my final paper on the decreasing purity in sports due to Web 2.0 and sports blogs and such. Juicy campus really takes the same mold, however, instead of it destroying the way in which we view sports purity, it is questioning our institutions of higher learning. Is this the type of “B.S.” that the founders of America’s highest educational instituations wanted us to be doing?
December 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Juicycampus is an immature website. There is no purpose to it except to pass time. It is mindless entertainment. I think it is silly for people to actually devote their thoughts and time into this. The people that probably contribute to such sites just want attention or bragging rights to their friends to show that they did something on a public website. There is no fame to be obtained from such sites like juicycampus. To answer the question in the previous reply, No. This should be one of the last things that the founders of America’s highest educational institutions wanted us to be doing.
December 14, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Juicy campus is so unnecessary. It is a funny idea of a website, but its completely fake and people can post whatever they want on it. For example for the post hottest girls: anyone can just post themselves. It’s completely ineffective and pointless. It is amusing however though.