Is that really a euphemism for mj? I would think it just referred to decorative plants, like ferns or ivy.
In the interests of privacy and security, these websites should require a logon and be restricted to members of the internal group, ie, those affiliated with the university.
In today's world, where college students are very e-savy, I'm quite surprised they aren't aware of very basic principles of maintaining privacy on-line. Early on, people learned that whatever you type on a computer can be made public. Ollie North got nailed by PROFS backup tapes, an early email system. People learned the hard way that BBS conversations could be risky.
By college age, I would presume that they'd know not to give out their real name/phone number/address in an open e-chat room, an unsolicited email, or to a stranger they'd meet in a bar or on the street. I'd think they had gotten some creepy emails and messages. Geez, even in my day kids knew to be wary of strangers, even fellow college students and to safeguard their privacy, and that was before the days of publicized date rape of stalkers. I went to college in the city and right up front they gave us some security/safety tips.
I read in the papers some students put out blogs with blatant personal stuff, like intimate details about their sex life, though I've never seen such a site. Indeed, I wonder, given the tendency of kids to brag about the outrageous, if some of those sites are actually fiction just to goof around and shock people.
Anyway, it seems strange to me that these kids would be so brazenly open about such personal stuff. In my day plenty of kids smoked pot or slept around, but they were at least a little discrete about it, and certainly didn't want their parents or school officials finding out.
Could anyone familiar with the situation elaborate what's going on in the collegiate online world? Anyone actually seen these blatant personal blog sites?
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