Little Gossip website - let's shut it down.

[willow]

I've been forwarded this by a friend who has a teenage son. Fortunately, my DS is a bit young to be bothered by this, but I've had a look and it's vile...

The most appalling website has sprung to prominence. It?s an open book for bitching, bullying, backstabbing and the very, very worst of teenage brutishness.

Anyone can write anonymous vitriol about anyone AND name that person. Please look at the website: www.littlegossip.com and then:

1. Block it from all computers to which your children have access
2. Send a complaint to both of these email addresses and your MP and to anyone else who you think might reasonably be able to do something to stop this. [email protected] and [email protected]
3. Forward this email to your entire address book.

Please take the time to do this now or more and more teenagers will suffer.

Willow, you are right - That is a VILE site!!!

Well it is vile - but I reckon the stop it campaign probably originated with the site providers as a way of getting it 'out there'. I'm very suspicious of the 'forward to everyone you know' thing.

Agree with Northern.

Just ignore it. I haven't looked, don't want to give them hits, but starving these things of attention is prob best policy.

I did look at the website and was horrified by what students were saying about their peers, and are using full names and school or college names.
I am grateful that my DCs school is not on there, but if it was, then I would certainly want to know so that I could contact the Head teacher asap.

There's worse on FB - I got a group deleted quite recently which was dedicated to slagging off teachers at the school where I work.

I was quite miffed not to be mentioned, actually....

Agree the campaign is almost certainly promotional.

This website is stocking. It give teenagers a chance to bully and bitch about each other without consequence. Surely this shouldn't be allowed.

This website is stocking. It give teenagers a chance to bully and bitch about each other without consequence. Surely this shouldn't be allowed.

I think it may have been shut down. I have been going on there and adding positive messages and encouraging people not to post nasty things. But haven't been able to get into it this afternoon.

People come on! Would you HONESTLY report these things to the police? If children don't want to be bullied it's for them not to read the website - not us! I've seen this website and I'm proud of the fact I'm not a rowdy, strict mother like you guys. The website hasn't been shut down, it's just on and off, and will probably be back on later today. You women are just here to kill the party. Most schools are probably aware of this but will only intervene by blocking it from their school computers, as children clearly can't be punished for posting messages due to the anonymity of the website. The people who are most upset about the website are adults, as they fail to empathise with teenagers who can take a joke.

What a pile of crap you post sharoney, cyber bullying has resulted in sucides of teens all over the uk and suggesting thet it is killing the party is insensitive at best.

However the cynic in me believe that you have far too much interest in this website (and knowledge as to it's working practices) to be impartial.

Are you using this site to increase it's web prescence?

I'm not saying Little Gossip's a good thing. But you guys are taking it wayyyy too far! I mean the police?! I'm sure the police would rather be spending their time dealing with real crimes, rather than some petty gossip website, which you're restricting them from doing

"NOTE: We are removing all schools as part of our efforts to stop minors from using this site. Users over the age of 18 are encouraged to leave gossip about friends at university, college or companies."

There doesn't seem to be a UK section, though.

The website seems to be used much more in the London area, rather than anywhere else in the world, probably because it's easy to spread these kinds of things around London, especially around private schools. Of course private schools will be the most bitchy, as that's what private schools are like, and also because people from private schools are generally friends with each other and will tell each other of the site. As I said, I don't condone the site, but I certainly don't take it to the levels you people do!

I've just started spreading rumours about the site on the site ie "I heard the people running this site are having to send the details of what people have written and computers they came from to the heads of schools and colleges" the site wipes it quite quickly but if you keep writing things about them it'll put kids off and teach the site a valuable lesson on how annoying lies can be

Good news everyone - the awful site has finally been taken down. The organisers keep trying to say that it was purely their decision with no outside pressure but I'm absolutely sure public awareness and sentiment played a large part. Makes me so angry when these online sites are so irresponsible about making it so much easier for cowardly anonymous bullying to spread. www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12452972