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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2009/02/04/anonymous-gossip-fail-juicy-campus-to-shutdown/

  • @rdeal1 · 10 months ago
    its a shame, can't say i didnt see it coming though... there was really not much benefit, nothing unique that the site offered... anonymous gossip is extremely easy to initiate in many ways online
  • Courtney Curran · 10 months ago
    I am so glad this site is finally getting shut down. This remarkably insensitive and immature web site has caused more grief to my sorority sisters, friends, and the Greek communities across the nation than I could ever imagine. Greeks, especially since we are already faced with enough stereotypes to begin with, need to stick together and support our sisters, brothers, and houses... not spread obscene rumors and hate. It only proves those against Greek life right.
  • Craig · 10 months ago
    It was a funny site to check out. Which it was around when I was in college.
  • arthur barbato · 10 months ago
    if a site fails to have a conversation with appropriate sponsors that lust truly for your audience they are courting doom.
  • Tan · 10 months ago
    With 165,000-1,000,000 visitors I can't believe they couldn't monetize that traffic. What were they expenses.
  • Tan · 10 months ago
    With 165,000-1,000,000 visitors I can't believe they couldn't monetize that traffic. What were there expenses?
  • Justin Leon · 10 months ago
    Courtney, get over yourself. Maybe if said Greek organizations didn't live up to those stereotypes, maybe people didn't need to talk shit about them.

    I'm sorry, I didn't have to buy my friends in school.

    JuicyCampus will be missed. It kept things real.
  • Justin Leon · 10 months ago
    Courtney, get over yourself. If said Greek organizations didn't live up to those stereotypes, maybe people didn't need to talk shit about them.

    I'm sorry, I didn't have to buy my friends in school.

    JuicyCampus will be missed. It kept things real.
  • mm · 10 months ago
    This great news made my day!
  • PHP · 10 months ago
    With juicycampus closing come over to collegeacb.com. Collegeacb allows users to create posts on their college page and encourages taboo discussions.
  • gayle silver · 10 months ago
    juicy was good, but we all knew it wasn't going to last forever. There are only so many times you can stoach hearing about so and so having AIDS or sorostitutes, I bet that new website poshsociety.com will pick up its revenue. It's more like gossip girl or a tabloid and doesn't just bash. It says real gossip-which is not always negative-along with pictures. I wonder if that is Matt Ivestors new brainchild
  • Chris Basey · 10 months ago
    The issue with Juicy Campus was always the hate filled and slanderous/libelous posts that littered the site. The 'free speech' argument wore thin too, in the light of the type of posts on the site.

    We've built an anonymous site (www.answerjam.com) and we try to address some of the issues. We created a community around anonymity, and allow users to post and comment using aliases. The idea to provide a safe and fun haven for people to rant, confess, gossip, ask for advice as well allowing users to engage in conversations around these posts, all while being 100% anonymous. We have policies in place to deal with real names being used on the site as anonymity should be something that hide behind while launching attacks on others.
  • John P. Barbagallo · 10 months ago
    It's true that without money flowing in, you fall into a deep trap.

    Perhaps this is just a bubble effect and gossip websites will eventually spring back. This will probably be around the same time as the advertising bubble rebounds.
  • THEDert · 10 months ago
    there is a new site that has picked up where Juicy Campus left off.

    Spoiledjuice.com