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Similar to Craigslist’s “Missed Connections,” Toor’s websites invite students to post amorous notes about their crushes—names striken but humorous descriptions preserved—in the hopes that the crush might see the post. If professing...
HarvardFML.com, tag-lined “F*ck my life...at Harvard,” is a repository of bad luck, lost love, and embarrassing moments. But the stories on HarvardFML.com, though funny and light, are also the stories that you save for your closest friends. Posting on the sites...
INVISIBLE, BUT HEARD
But not all the posts on HarvardFML.com are humorous. Some lament lousy grades, others describe crying into a pillow on Saturday night because of unrequited love. The reasons for keeping those posts private tap into a different sort of embarrassment—one that would be much deeper were the...
Toor also credits this potential embarrassment with part of the success of her site. Her original intention was to create a gag site for a computer science project, but over the first few weeks of its launch, she watched as more and more users began to see it as a...