Topical Blog Post #2

Some young people go to college with knowledge of what they want to do with their future. Others go without the slightest idea of what they want to do, but have hopes of figuring it out. Some just do not want to be in college and are just there to have a good time. However, all of these young people that go to college are there to grow. In which direction? It varies, but it would be rare for someone to come out of college the exact same person they were when they enrolled. For many of us, young college students, the transition to adulthood we experience can be difficult.
Recently, websites have been created to spread among young, growing college students. These websites, such as juicycampus.com and thedirty.com allow anyone to post anything about anyone of their peers, anonymously. You can search a student by there name, school, organization, or location. The problem with these websites is that there is no way of taking down a picture or blog someone else wrote about you, and there is no way of knowing who posted it.
I like to think of this as a hate crime of the 21st century. Students, using technology to destroy the reputations of their peers. We are the next generation, together. We are all growing, together. This unnecessary form of hate needs to stop. Young people in such a vulnerable stage in their lives are known to react in extreme ways when hurt like this.
So what do we do about it? By the time someone sues this website people will be onto the next, new thing. What we can do now is just stop going on these sites. They only strive because students blog on. If students stopped, so would the websites. I ask you to in a sense, uneducate yourself. Clear these websites from your mind.