This weekend, I expected Twitter to be littered with AP memes, Cinco de Mayo jokes and the like. What I didn’t expect was the deepest secrets, some more true than others, I’m sure, splattered all across my Twitter feed.

Everything you would ever want to know about the personal lives of Rockwood’s finest was in a list for everyone to read.  Who hooked up with whom, secret crushes, heartless comments and compliments.

On a surface level, this seems like a fun forum for high schoolers to have.  As @RockwoodConfess puts it, it gives us a chance to “get things off our chest,” but it became much more personal than that.

Students began to confess things that, true or not, that could be libelous if printed on a news site such as this. People need to be careful about what they say.  Even with an informal Twitter account, students need to remember, that even if they can’t be reprimanded directly by the school, or the law, students take these types of things seriously.

Students elsewhere have committed suicide over less. And for what, a laugh?

This Twitter account, even if it may have began as an innocent joke, has escalated to something much bigger. @RockwoodConfess now has about 1,400 followers, and now needs to think about what it is sending to the world, and if the people behind the account want to be responsible for what happens.

The account even became well-known enough for Chief Communications Officer Kim Cranston to get in on the action, “confessing” that “this needs to stop.”

Many students took this as a joke, laughing that Rockwood needs to get off their backs (in much more explicit terms). But it’s not a joke. What is posted on this account is actually read by the people the comments are posted about.

They took down all of their posts, but it appears as this is only a break, before they post all the rest of the confessions.

Before this escalates to something of Mean Girls caliber, or worse, just stop.