UPDATE: Shortly after this post was officially published the site was taken down. For the better I suppose.
I was recently sent a link to a blog that I am assuming is written by a local student. I’m not sure how to take the site.
Photo Credit: cchiao
This person calls them self the Gossip Girl of YK. I’m sure not all of you are familiar with the TV show Gossip Girl so I will try to explain it the best I can.
In the upper east side of New York there is a school of high class kids with rich parents who seem to get everything they want. The show is full of sex, partying and scandals and it is all based around this Gossip Girl who is anonymous. She runs a website, a blog if you will, about the gossip around these students lives and every time she makes a post about some dirt she has uncovered they all instantly get the update to their mobiles.
Now I would say that this site here in Yellowknife is a long way off from being anything like that and one must remember that the real Gossip Girl is a fictional character in a TV show. That being said seeing this site slightly worries me because if you read through it, it really is making some big accusations about people and making those people mad. Knowing enough about how the internet works I can also guess that the “Gossip Girl” will be found out soon enough through a simple IP check and call to a internet provider.
Then there is the part of me that is intrigued by it and would keep reading but at the same time I feel bad for those being written about.
A word of caution to the writer. You may want to rethink what you are doing. You have already received many threats if you are found out. Be Careful whose toes you step on!
Yellowknife, what are your thoughts on a site like this? I know most of my readers are adults but how would you respond if you read something about yourself you didn’t want anybody to know. What action do you think should be taken?
I guess I’m old and out of touch with the Kids These Days. That was the most boring Yellowknife blog I’ve seen so far. Too bad. A blog about life as a teenager could be really interesting.
GET OFF MY LAWN.
It seems the blog has been deactivated some how.
Hmmm. Interesting.
The Gossip Girl of YK has delete/deactivated her live.com’s space. Here is the cached version of the blog entries:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:KhYarlb0Ac4J:gossipgirlyk.spaces.live.com/blog/
The writer of this blog “Kyle” is, in my opinion, was being unnecessarily alarmist about the “everybody has a secret” by so called “gossip girl”. Be tolerant about others: their culture, language, writings (blogs), lifestyle, … Your (“kyle”) gripe seems to be that this “gossip girl” is writing openly with names about people and it is “bad”. According to you (“kyle”): “Now I would say that this site here in Yellowknife is a long way off from being anything like that …” Develop some tolerance for others to be different or being “long way from being anything like that”.
I am not sure why were you in “gossip girl”’s “everybody has a secret”? Her blog was not on the list of any top tens. Unless you have connection with the persons she wrote about, I can only surmise that you were hunting for YK or NWT blogs. I hope you do not routine hunt for blogs that in your opinion are “bad” or “a long way from …”.
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~ espia
Espia,
I hunt for local blogs as well as places I’d like to travel to someday, there’s nothing wrong or unusual about that at all. If I find one that’s particularly interesting
I’ll link my friends.
Also agree with Kyle here: there is no need so stir shit up by spreading rumours simply because they’re bored with this town. It’s not an issue of tolerance, she was being unreasonably malicious in her posts.
i may have gotten old at some point
i think… who gives a shit? it’s not written very well at all
Hughie, that was my feeling, too. YAWN.