The kinds of comments that used to be scrawled inside a bathroom stall are now posted for the world to read on Web sites encouraging college students to talk trash about their classmates. "Chico sluts: Gimme some names" is a discussion thread on the California State University, Chico, section of CollegeACB.com. It includes 77 responses that name many enrolled students and make detailed allegations about who's done what with whom. The UC Davis section of the same site includes this comment, posted Friday: "So far I have hooked up with half of (a women's sports) team, and I think I might have gotten an STD from one of them. I am seriously freaking out, so if anyone has any information on this that would be very helpful to know who had an STD." An anonymous response names someone and says she "used to have crabs." The sites reflect a new reality of campus life, blending the age-old penchant for gossip with the anonymity and the wide reach of the Internet. Unlike social networking sites such as Facebook, where people … [Read more...]