Remember when you thought you had a secret, and then told one friend, who told another, who told another? Suddenly your life is on display. Frightening concept,
right? Except … now you are the one putting it on display. On purpose. Anonymously.
The relatively new Facebook group called CU Confessions provides a platform for students to share, well, pretty much anything under the cloak of anonymity. Students who wish to submit a confession or comment do so via a survey linked to on the page, and the moderators of the page post it on the timeline under the CU Confessions account. Some of the posts are so far out there that it can be difficult knowing whether or not these “confessions” actually happened.
“I feel like so many of these confessions are made up. Just like when FML and MLIA were popular. Like do these people actually exist on Creighton’s campus because you people do a great job of hiding your real selves,” an anonymous person posted on the page.
Some people have apparently accomplished some pretty amazing feats without being caught. If these are actually happening, it’s also a little frightening to think about what’s going on around campus. Some of these posts are pretty funny. Others are quite gross, and some may even make you question the integrity of students.
The reason so many students are flocking to CU Confessions is because everything is anonymously posted.No one has any idea who people are, unless they happen to know one of he stories, or can figure out some of the initials. So what would happen if this page weren’t really anonymous?
“I’m secretly afraid that somehow the creators of this page are tracking who is submitting these confessions and will reveal everyone’s names eventually,” questioned another post. So many people would be violated in so many different ways. This would not be good.
Even if you don’t relate to the posts, you can still laugh at them because of the hilarious anecdotes they provide to your everyday life. Trying to figure out if you know anyone from the posts, or even if you are one of the people mentioned can be interesting.
Wondering about the creators of this page? So are we. According to one post, they live in Swanson, and that is all the information we have. We will have to see if they ever come forward. As for right now, though, many students think the creators have done a wonderful service to the students of Creighton by creating this page. If nothing else, it has provided some entertainment during these boring winter months for us. The page received more than 1,000 likes in less than two weeks. It’s doing pretty well.