Sites like JuicyCampus.com are a waste of time and energy. They are created to entertain the type of people that live for drama-- a specific kind of drama. Not the heavy kind, like the reality of genocide in Darfur. This type of website exists for the fluffy kind of drama, the he said-she said type of pettiness that can be addicting for some. These websites are created for the purpose of making baseless gossip more accessible to a wider range of people.
Posters on sites like JuicyCampus.com aren't restricted to the truth, because they are sending messages which, hopefully, will garner the proper response, whatever that may be. Those who read these posts are not searching for truth; the offensive, ludicrous, sometimes humourous claims are read for their entertainment value only.
If I were the victim of false accusations on a site like JuicyCampus.com, I would be curious about who had posted it and I'd wonder what had led that person to type what they did, but ultimately it wouldn't really impact me. Just as I would never post something behind someone's back, I would never validate the pettiness of a post by getting upset about it.
Posters on sites like JuicyCampus.com aren't restricted to the truth, because they are sending messages which, hopefully, will garner the proper response, whatever that may be. Those who read these posts are not searching for truth; the offensive, ludicrous, sometimes humourous claims are read for their entertainment value only.
If I were the victim of false accusations on a site like JuicyCampus.com, I would be curious about who had posted it and I'd wonder what had led that person to type what they did, but ultimately it wouldn't really impact me. Just as I would never post something behind someone's back, I would never validate the pettiness of a post by getting upset about it.
