Collegiate gossip website JuicyCampus left some students wanting more upon its exit from the Internet, but two new sites are waiting to fill the void — TotalFratMove.com and GreekRank.com.
 
JuicyCampus, an online tabloid targeting sororities and fraternities, was shut down in May 2009 because of the severity of rumors and abusive comments posted on the site.
 
Rachel Klein, accounting junior and member of Phi Mu sorority, said she visited Juicy Campus when it was still online.
 
“When Juicy Campus was in existence, I looked at that. I went on it when I heard about it freshman year because I heard about    some people I knew being talked about on it,” Klein said. “The comments about people were so mean, though, that I stopped going to look at it, and then next thing I heard was that it got so bad that they shut it down.”
 
With Juicy Campus now      defunct, other sites have moved in to take its place.
 
TotalFratMove.com is a site similar to TextsFromLastNight.com and FMyLife.com.
 
TFM has many components to it, including an online store and user-submitted pictures and videos.
 
The site’s layout is based more on entertainment than bashing and harsh judgments.
 
“We saw an opportunity to create a user-generated entertainment platform for a segment of college life that is underrepresented online,” said W. Holden, TFM spokesman.
 
Holden said he took notes on functionality and certain features from those before him, but he feels TFM has exceeded others in its level of entertainment and quality.
 
“TotalFratMove is really funny, and I would definitely go on for a good laugh,” said Kaitlynn Jambon, agricultural business finance junior and member of Sigma Alpha sorority. “However, if it’s bashing sororities, then that is horrible and not funny at all.”
 
TFM has been on the Web since June. Holden said the site has had more than 3 million hits since the page was created.
 
Another site that blossomed during the summer is GreekRank.com. GreekRank most resembles JuicyCampus with its ranking system and comment area.
 
GreekRank has become a more negative forum, which has caused uproar from users. The negative comments have become a problem and, according to the site, a new Web page is in the making that will focus more on the positive, friendly arena of comments.
 
“We all looked at it before Rush and we were all really concerned because people were making negative comments about us,” said Emily Oakley, biology senior and member of the Chi Omega sorority. “We thought it might affect rush, but none of the girls that came through mentioned it at all. I guess that just shows that no one takes that stuff seriously.”
 
 
 
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