Colleagues,
We've had a number of issues crop up this year where students (presumably) have created "anonymous" Facebook sites or Twitter feeds that have served to foster and promote campus rumors, gossip, anonymous confessions, and the like. Much of the content on these sites is misogynistic, or focused on partying, alcohol, etc. Today, sadly, someone posted about a suicidal thought.
Each time one of these sites crops up, our Student Affairs folks have turned to ITS to ask what we can do to find out who's behind the sites, and/or shut them down. To my knowledge, there's not much we can do about them.
They're also asking for "best practices" -- what other institutions are doing to monitor, manage, control, and/or shut down these types of sites. So, I'm turning to you all -- are you seeing these types of sites at your institution, and if so, how are you dealing with them?
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