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" &amp;quot;Anonymously send in the name of the guy or girl you&amp;#039;ve been crushing on at University of Tampa,&amp;quot; the Twitter handle @UTampaCrushes instructs. UT students are not the inventors of this social media trend; Compliments, Secret Admirers, and Crushes pages are sweeping across college campuses around America. What a great way to bond the community with a little flirting, right? Well, with such anonymity comes great responsibility, and what happens when it gets abused? I&amp;#039;ll tell ya\u2014digital drama! My school&amp;#039;s Crushes page is the talk of the campus. You can submit anything your heart desires, no matter how personal or vulgar, and the owners of the account will post it, usually setting a raunchy tone for future commenters.  It can be all fun and games until the spotlight is on you. On countless occasions, the tweets crudely objectify girls&amp;#039; bodies. For example, one particularly disgusting tweet basically said a guy would &amp;quot;totally hook up with that little Kate girl, if she wasn&amp;#039;t so anorexic,&amp;quot;which put Kate and her figure unwillingly up for public scrutiny. Anorexia is an eating disorder that goes beyond the action of &amp;#039;not eating&amp;#039; but runs deeper in the emotional and mental aspect, and should be taken seriously. Another user found it funny to ask a girl &amp;quot;in my philosophy class. Sex me please.&amp;quot; I spoke with the girl afterward and she felt very uncomfortable walking into her philosophy class the next day as the other students stared her down. Even worse, she&amp;#039;s still not sure which guy in her class posted it, so she feels suspicious of everyone. Unfortunately, with such a small student body and people search on Facebook, anyone at UT can find everyone with their full names published. It&amp;#039;s crazy how one single Twitter handle can rile up a whole campus. The girls feel ugly or unnoticed if they aren&amp;#039;t mentioned, and when they do get singled out in an objectifying comment, they either get really excited, sadly, or feel very targeted and upset. Nobody wins! This hate-yet-secretly-love scenario messes with your mind and sucks you into the world of cyberbullying. The simplest way to put an end to drama is to refuse to partake in it. It only takes one person to start a rumor, so avoid being that person. If your name pops up in gossip, make what really happened known and move on. Do not linger on what you cannot change or let it distract you from living your day. Remember that what other people think of you is none of your business. Besides, all rumors have a life cycle; they eventually get boring and are forgotten about. Lastly, do not feel slighted if you aren&amp;#039;t talked about\u2014consider it a blessing instead. Trust me, the weirdo who outwardly comments on your breast size is generally just a shallow dude who only cares about looks. There is no boyfriend material in that. Nothing pure comes from dirty gossip! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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