Confession #1707: “I’m a freshman and I only cried twice. This week.”
University confessions, and other forms of “confession” pages, have become ubiquitous on Facebook and social media as a whole. As their popularity suggests, they can be seriously entertaining. The UBC Confessions page, which has an impressive 16,526 likes, encourages students to “inbox us your most heart felt, disgusting, hilarious, filthy, and embarrassing confessions from UBC!”, assuring that “they will be posted ANONYMOUSLY on [the] page.” The title of this blog post is an example of such. Anonymity is clearly a major motivator for contributors, for it provides a means to reveal controversial,…read more