Letter: ‘Concerned Student’

Dear editor:
As a Facebook user and a CSC student, I heard of CSC Confessions from a mutual friend who had put a link on her page. I clicked on it and started reading post after post of people talking about the disgusting and appalling things that they have done in various places on campus.

At first, just like everybody, I thought it was funny and entertaining. But when confessions started talking about students and using crude language, I immediately got disgusted and exited out of the tab. I even reported them to Facebook, explaining that I didn’t think it should be on Facebook because it had sexually explicit content.

I understand that it’s just a silly little place that people can anonymously submit their dirty little fantasies and things about the school, but what does that say about us as a school community? With it being on Facebook, anybody that likes the page can see the content on it.

They can see the dirty and disgusting things that people have submitted multiple times since the site was created. What if it was potential students that were possibly thinking about going here that sees the page, or potential professors or people higher up? What does that say about us as a whole, that all we do is have fantasies about girls getting out of pick-ups or having sex everywhere?

But not only are sexual exploits admitted on that site, but what if somebody started talking smack about a certain individual, even going to the point where they used the person’s name, and the site included it as a confession? Despite the fact that the site’s about me page says that they won’t post negative things about individuals, what if something slipped through the radar?

We could have some major cyber bullying cases going on campus. I’m sorry, but nothing on this page is funny, exciting, and epic as stated in their about me. It’s disgusting, degrading, and stupid.

I think its harm to current students, whether submitting to the site or not, the entire school community, and the college, as well as its success in the future. I understand that people do things like individuals have submitted, it’s college.

But some things are meant to be kept private, including most, if not all, of the confessions on the site.

–A Concerned Student