Facebook’s giving students a chance to show off their comedy skills – but could it hurt your school’s reputation?
Facebook’s University Meme Pages – community pages featuring Internet memes related to individual schools – have ballooned in popularity of late. But what started off as a series of shared in-jokes lampooning individual campuses has also become an easy way to get some digs in at rival schools.
How it works: Students go to a database of university-related images (such as Campus Memes), caption them with a brief description or parody of student or faculty activity, and put them up on their school’s Facebook meme page.
Students are hurrying to create Facebook meme pages for their schools – before someone else does. For example, a pair of students at the University of Oregon started up a page, and within its first day, scored 2,500 likes.
Usually the jokes hit on such college woes as class registration, partying, residence hall habits and the high cost of education.
But it’s not uncommon to take shots at rival schools (such as the image of the Dos Equis pitchman with the caption, “We don’t always beat GA Tech, but when we do … Wait, actually, yes we do always beat them”).
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