Ever get that feeling when you just can’t shift the sense that someone is watching your every move? Well in many ways, welcome to British University life! Due to the insane growth in social networking sites and social media in general, it seems that there is nowhere you can hide within University from the masses of *cough, myself included, cough* social-networking obsessed students. Be it serial bloggers or people who are simply in it solely for the study-relief giggles that it arouses, someone around you in the library will probably be mentioning or including you in a post somewhere on the web! Scary? Or just the direction the technological world is taking us in?
Well, if it wasn’t for the new craze of ‘Spotted: So and So University Library’, which provides myself and many others with endless hilarious light relief throughout deadlines, dissertations and exam periods, I’d probably find it a little creepy too! But instead, ‘Spotted: University of Liverpool Library/ Gym’ has indeed taken the online world by storm!
As a site where you can post a number of things including anonymously post love letters (or even love/lust poems in some extreme, revision crazed cases!). If revision is simply making you irritated you can send the person opposite you, “Stop eating so loudly, I’m trying to revise” notes or query as to “Why have you brought an inappropriate animal to the library.” Or even if it is to simply post to enquire anonymously about the inspirational fashion of the person sat opposite you, it has become a regular and hilarious part of any British students’ newsfeed. And instead of offending and scaring people through the slightly Big Brother aspect of the craze, it has silently helped (I’m sure) every student through exam period.
So, if you’re already feeling stressed by revision and deadlines and secretly stressed by the good-looking guy opposite ruining his natural beauty and taking the scouse style a little too far by wearing pyjamas- yes, I know, pyjamas- to the library, why not anonymously vent to the eagerly awaiting, bored library masses and allow others to share in your humorous stress? As long as you remember to get dressed before hitting the library, not eat anything noisy (ie. crisps, apples, raw carrots or anything if you’re a boy) around those trying to revise, and look extra beautiful for the cute guy opposite to be in with the chance of receiving an anonymous love letter/poem, then everything will be alright even with the Big Brother University eye following your every library/ work-out move!
With this site, everyone’s a winner… Except perhaps the person that has deemed it acceptable to sneak an animal into the silent study room!