The next Alexandra Robbins?

UT-Austin DG to be paid for keeping a 'sorority girl blog'

She says that she won't ever mention affiliation and will try to combat anti-Greek stereotypes, but I think this is a load of bullshit and a trainwreck waiting to happen.

Nothing's wrong with cursing like a sailor or drinking like a fish. (Hi, Sandy) [in my best Julia Stiles voice a la 10 Things I Hate About You] "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" ... gotta love the attention whore.

Thoughts?

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by OTW
UT-Austin DG to be paid for keeping a 'sorority girl blog'

She says that she won't ever mention affiliation and will try to combat anti-Greek stereotypes, but I think this is a load of bullshit and a trainwreck waiting to happen.

Nothing's wrong with cursing like a sailor or drinking like a fish. (Hi, Sandy) [in my best Julia Stiles voice a la 10 Things I Hate About You] "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" ... gotta love the attention whore.

Thoughts?

No one's ever going to pay a fraternity or sorority member to promote the good aspects of Greek life. Maybe that's just the cynical part in me talking, but I just don't see it happening.

She herself even claims that the company that is paying her is "questionable." If you need money that much, get a job.

I'm wondering how much she's being paid for this little gig.

[blueangel]

Here's a news release from the company that she says has offered to pay her to blog:

Press Release Source: MobileJam


My Mousepad or Yours - Friendsation Launches Today
Friday July 8, 7:55 am ET


SEATTLE, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, leading Audiotext firm MobileJam is launching Friendsation.com, a free dating/friendship community geared not only to the web, but focusing heavily on mobile phone technology. In recent years online dating has experienced a surge of popularity which has resulted in record profits that are continuing to grow at a steady pace. With the ability to provide detailed and pictured profiles of its members, online dating quickly became the preferred choice to the faceless voice and all-too brief personal descriptions of regular dating lines. Friendsation.com will combine the social networking scene by bringing free instant messaging, online dating and mobile flirting into one interactive community.
User-friendly and very accessible, Friendsation.com, produced by youth marketing company Plush Mobile, will be geared to the always-on-the-move digital world of the 18 to 30-year-old market, offering its users access to live online and mobile chat with over a dozen interactive features. Friendsation.com members will have access to user profiles, photo galleries, blog diaries, instant messaging, pc to pc chatting and pc to mobile as well as the ability to send video messages to friends or love interests all at the touch of their keypads.

Providing a free social network service, however, will not be the only drawing point. Friendsation.com is intent on engaging members with web and mobile blogging, hoping subscribers will enjoy an alternative way of learning more about someone than just reading the details of their personal profile. Along with building their online community with personal blogs, Friendsation will also be looking to pull chatters in with the dating content of "Straight Up," a life, love and sex forum to be moderated by twentysomething journalist Jed Maheu, who writes for various popular alternative weekly newspapers across the country.

Friendsation.com will officially launch on July 8, 2005 and will be available to mobile phone networks in September. For more information about Friendsation or press enquiries please contact Shawnee Swarengin, Public Relations, at 310.798.6973 or email her at shawnee@plushmobile.com.


Contact:

Shawnee Swarengin
Plush Mobile
Raleigh Studios
650 Bronson Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
310.798.6973
shawnee@plushmobile.com

This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.

[BetteDavisEyes]

Yeah I heard about this. Apparently, she's very proud that she's not the "typical" sorority girl & is eager to show off what she does & how things are going w/her life. She's stupid.

[blueangel]

A blog can be a very dangerous thing. It can come back to haunt you. You never know who is reading-- perhaps your employer.

And.. a defunct blog can still come back to hurt you down the road. Once up on the internet, it is there for all eternity. You can take down the site, but it lives forever.

Background checks are now becoming common place in employment. Would you tell a potential employer that you "curse like a sailor and drink like a fish?" That is exactly what you are doing when you write this kind of thing down in a blog.

There are plenty of stories in the news lately about how blogs can come back to bite you.. here is one well worth reading from the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...i-business-hed

[DGMom3]

OK - I was just trying to read some recruitment posts and felt the need to reply after reading her blog and the comments attached to it...

As a DG alum, this "blog" really concerns me. I know that DG's at many schools are thought to be down to earth and fun and while that is fine, if this girl approaches Greek life in this way, maybe she should reconsider her membership. We had lots of girls in my collegiate chapter that were not typical "sorority girls", and most of us certainly had our moments at parties, but we still prided ourselves on being ladies and we certainly did not broadcast our exploits. And, a vast majority of us cared about our grades.

This blog will do nothing but make DG and Greek life look bad and reinforce negative stereotypes. We would have been brought to standards board for less than this - of course, that was 12 - 15 years ago, but still.....

I wonder if the Advisory Board Chairman at UT is aware of this?
EEEKKK

DG MOM 3

Originally posted by BetteDavisEyes
Yeah I heard about this. Apparently, she's very proud that she's not the "typical" sorority girl & is eager to show off what she does & how things are going w/her life. She's stupid.

LOL @ "she's stupid."


A couple of years ago when one of my friends was a freshman at UT, she kept a blog type thing about her daily life on the university webpage. She talked about missing home, classes, friends, dorms and food. I think she got paid.

[LightBulb]

Originally posted by OTW
[in my best Julia Stiles voice a la 10 Things I Hate About You] "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" ... gotta love the attention whore.

Thoughts?

Good impersonation

[kddani]

What the hell is the point of not mentioning her sorority affiliation in the blogs if she's already screamed all over the world her affiliation and what she's doing?

Originally posted by kddani
What the hell is the point of not mentioning her sorority affiliation in the blogs if she's already screamed all over the world her affiliation and what she's doing?

LOL...didja read her comments in Intern Briana's blog?

Classic.

I posted something in sororitygirl about Intern Briana, and her initial post was along the lines of "Let's get that slut!"

It's since been deleted. Oh TEH IRONING!

Originally posted by DGMom3
OK - I was just trying to read some recruitment posts and felt the need to reply after reading her blog and the comments attached to it...

As a DG alum, this "blog" really concerns me. I know that DG's at many schools are thought to be down to earth and fun and while that is fine, if this girl approaches Greek life in this way, maybe she should reconsider her membership. We had lots of girls in my collegiate chapter that were not typical "sorority girls", and most of us certainly had our moments at parties, but we still prided ourselves on being ladies and we certainly did not broadcast our exploits. And, a vast majority of us cared about our grades.

This blog will do nothing but make DG and Greek life look bad and reinforce negative stereotypes. We would have been brought to standards board for less than this - of course, that was 12 - 15 years ago, but still.....

I wonder if the Advisory Board Chairman at UT is aware of this?
EEEKKK

DG MOM 3

If they're not already, they probably will soon.

I read her personal LJ, and I have to admit...I like her stuff and I find that a lot of things she says are witty and entertaining. When someone has promising talent like this, it's unfortunate that it's going to be applied to something negative.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by blueangel
A blog can be a very dangerous thing. It can come back to haunt you. You never know who is reading-- perhaps your employer.[/url]

So true, I read in PEOPLE magazine about several people who were canned due to their blogs about their employers.

[kdonline]

The LJ thread in question is gone.

That's the second one in the same week that has been deleted.

Do you think the GC police had anything to do with it?