Drunken Cornell Students Troll the New York Times
LatestFor a trendpiece on how social media is killing the college bar, the New York Times headed upstate to prep Bacchanalia Cornell University to get some juicy quotes from bros and bro-ettes just trying to enjoy a fishbowl full of vodka in peace before heading back to a fraternity house for some sex. And while the piece succeeded in finding several bored, hair twirling, obsessively smartphoning revelers, there was one problem: almost all of the students quoted in the piece gave the reporter a fake name. Sounds like the newfound Trolling Department at Cornell University is churning out some real thought leaders.
The piece, Last Call for College Bars plots the inverse relationship between the popularity of social media and the popularity of bars with names like The Library or The Fifth Down or Friendly’s, places in towns like Ann Arbor or Gainesville or Chapel Hill, places where college kids can take neon colored shots of bottom shelf liquor and make out with guys named Matt who you later find out was a townie. With the advent of Facebook, Foursquare, and even Grindr (which I have not known a heterosexual person to use, but, I guess it’s been awhile since I’ve been a horny college kid), students are opting to do most of their social interaction on the internet rather than in bars. The end of a hazy era! From the Times,