We received this email which made us laugh...
Dear Sir/Madam,
I viewed your twitter site and actually it's quit disturbing its more like a verbal porn site and maybe should be monitored a just a little bit better by your admin staff. It's only respectful to remember that parents are paying & students are paying large amounts of tuition to go to these schools and maybe these anonymous posts should have real names attached to them? In this country we do have college students who are only age 17 entering freshman year and in my personal opinion I feel the twitter site needs to be cleaned up because it's actually very "filthy" and it's not funny. Maybe it's supposed to be funny but you do have ppl. under 21 attending college & universities yet that twitter site has tons of confessions about drinking at college. When underage drinking & see is talking place whether fact or fiction it's actually a form of promoting this behavior and underage drinking.
As a parent of a soon to be college student I feel someone should monitor this twitter site at least clean it up just a bit because the casual joking about drug use and drinking in college or even this disturbing pornographic sex talk (which is quit filthy) should at least be filtered slightly so it doesn't turn into a total
porn twitter site. That will probably be the next step with the photos.
I'm sure I'm not he only parent that feels this way & I am respectfully only suggesting that maybe your dominant could clean up or deny posts on the twitter site that are too disgusting and step over the line.
Just a concerned & tuition paying parent,
Best Regards & Thank you for listening,
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PA
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I wanted to reply with a few thoughts.
"I viewed your twitter site and actually it's quit disturbing its more like a verbal porn site and maybe should be monitored a just a little bit better by your admin staff."
We have no issue with "verbal porn", most schools have students who have decided they want to take responsibility for their schools. We have seen some shocking stuff come through that you will never see on the site. Our system can integrate with twitter. We are not a twitter site, we are not wholly or partially owned by twitter, just a couple of people who make websites.
"It's only respectful to remember that parents are paying & students are paying large amounts of tuition to go to these schools and maybe these anonymous posts should have real names attached to them? "
No. No. No. No. No. Unless we are taking social security numbers or something as intrusive as that we cannot nor ever will take real names. This has got to be one of the dumbest requests we get.
1. We don't wanna know who you are.
2. There is no way to say who you are. Sure we could track you from Facebook/twitter, but that defeats the purpose of the site, many people do not take any security precautions and it is just not gonna happen.
3. How is the fact people pay for tuition relevant in any way? We do not host on an schools server, nor are funded by any university or any other higher education institution.
4. At 17 year old's have seen hardcore internet porn. This is tame. Unless your child is locked under a rock he/she has more than likely seen pornography, more than 50% are sexually active at 18.
"Maybe it's supposed to be funny but you do have ppl. under 21 attending college & universities yet that twitter site has tons of confessions about drinking at college. When underage drinking & see is talking place whether fact or fiction it's actually a form of promoting this behavior and underage drinking."
Yes because my website which does not live up to your standards. States raise the drinking age to keep highway funding see "National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984" I am not here to debate the fact that while illegal, people can talk about it.We are a confessions site, not your fucking nanny. We have this thing called the first amendment.
"That will probably be the next step with the photos."
Way ahead of you, we already have images it is up to the individual school administrator to regulate them as (s)he sees fit. If they want to have more graphic content that is fine.
"I'm sure I'm not he only parent that feels this way & I am respectfully only suggesting that maybe your dominant could clean up or deny posts on the twitter site that are too disgusting and step over the line."
Feel free to report any posts that have names or personally identifiable information so we may remove (the information not the confession)
"Just a concerned & tuition paying parent"
Just an annoyed student loan paying student.
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