Spring Break
New website allows gossip
Alexandria Phillips
Issue date: 2/20/09 Section: News
The College Anonymous Confession Board has replaced JuicyCampus, an online gossip site that officially shut down Feb. 5.
JuicyCampus had included over 500 campuses nationwide, receiving more than a million visitors each month.
The site shut down for financial reasons. It could no longer afford to operate due to a lack of financial funding and venture capital, according to a release from JuicyCampus.
Controversial issues have been raised on JuicyCampus, creating strong and antagonistic sentiment toward the web site, but Matt Ivester, founder and CEO of JuicyCampus, wants the site to be remembered as a fun, gossip site.
"While there are parts of JuicyCampus that none of us will miss-the mean-spirited posts and personal attacks-it has also been a place for the fun, lighthearted gossip of college life. I hope that is how it is remembered," Ivester wrote in an e-mail.
Now, JuicyCampus.com has been redirected to CollegeACB.com.
Recent college graduates Andrew Mann from John Hopkins University and Aaron Larner from Wesleyan University originally developed the College Anonymous Confession Board. Peter Frank, a freshman at Wesleyan University, is its owner.
A major difference between the sites is that the College Anonymous Confession Board requires users to log in to post messages, whereas JuicyCampus had no such requirement.
However, according to the web site, the College Anonymous Confession Board allows users to make a small number of posts before requiring login. This number will vary based on the size of the community and the activity on the board. In some cases there may be no posts at all.
According to its mission statement, the College Anonymous Confession Board aims to give students a place to lodge complaints and speak with peers in an environment free from social constraints, and on subjects that might otherwise be taboo.
In addition, the site monitors posts made by users. Any post that may be threatening, libelous, or otherwise illegal, is immediately brought to the webmaster's attention.
If any post violates the site's terms of agreement, it will be deleted, unlike on JuicyCampus, where deletion occurred only at the request of the users.
Drexel University's board contains 15 new topics since the Feb. 5 switch.
JuicyCampus had included over 500 campuses nationwide, receiving more than a million visitors each month.
The site shut down for financial reasons. It could no longer afford to operate due to a lack of financial funding and venture capital, according to a release from JuicyCampus.
Controversial issues have been raised on JuicyCampus, creating strong and antagonistic sentiment toward the web site, but Matt Ivester, founder and CEO of JuicyCampus, wants the site to be remembered as a fun, gossip site.
"While there are parts of JuicyCampus that none of us will miss-the mean-spirited posts and personal attacks-it has also been a place for the fun, lighthearted gossip of college life. I hope that is how it is remembered," Ivester wrote in an e-mail.
Now, JuicyCampus.com has been redirected to CollegeACB.com.
Recent college graduates Andrew Mann from John Hopkins University and Aaron Larner from Wesleyan University originally developed the College Anonymous Confession Board. Peter Frank, a freshman at Wesleyan University, is its owner.
A major difference between the sites is that the College Anonymous Confession Board requires users to log in to post messages, whereas JuicyCampus had no such requirement.
However, according to the web site, the College Anonymous Confession Board allows users to make a small number of posts before requiring login. This number will vary based on the size of the community and the activity on the board. In some cases there may be no posts at all.
According to its mission statement, the College Anonymous Confession Board aims to give students a place to lodge complaints and speak with peers in an environment free from social constraints, and on subjects that might otherwise be taboo.
In addition, the site monitors posts made by users. Any post that may be threatening, libelous, or otherwise illegal, is immediately brought to the webmaster's attention.
If any post violates the site's terms of agreement, it will be deleted, unlike on JuicyCampus, where deletion occurred only at the request of the users.
Drexel University's board contains 15 new topics since the Feb. 5 switch.
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