Twittering students anger LA neighbourhood
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Microblog Twitter has people living close to least one college all in a, well, twitter.
A Twitter application lets users, “blast messages to cellphones,” says Wired Campus.
Thus, “it’s the latest way for college students to learn about parties,” says the story, continuing neighbors in Westchester, the neighborhood surrounding Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, are saying it’s contributing to out-of-control student gatherings.
Services such as Twitter, “are not only allowing students to find out where their classmates are partying, but also when the gatherings are about to be shut down by the police”.
Residents have, “blogged about their concerns, saying microblogging is creating a situation in which ’students move from party to party fed by today’s technology’ and can easily avoid getting caught for underage drinking,” says Wired Campus, adding:
“A local news station quoted a Los Angeles police officer describing ‘100 or 150 kids’ filing out of a house with ‘all the things lighting up in their hands’ — presumably in response to a microblogged warning.
Here’s how Kelly Sutton describes the situation on HackCollege in Taking it to the OnLine Streets »»»
Last Saturday, HackCollege reported on how residents around Loyola Marymount University were blaming Twitter (among other things) on the recent increase in off-campus parties.
KNBC4 covered it on Friday and the Loyolan, LMU’s student-run newspaper, picked up the story in today’s issue. It has officially hit the fan.
Most interesting though, has been the forum with which the residents and students are bickering. They have taken their qualms online.
A Westchester resident has been operating his own blog called WestchesterParents.
A few of the recent posts highlight the growing party problem in the neighborhood among other things, like LAX expansion. A few students (including myself) have jumped in on the fray in the blog’s comments.
Stay tuned. (And keep on tweeting. 
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Wired Campus – Neighbors Blame Microblogging for Wild Partying at Loyola Marymount, September 18, 2008
HackCollege – LMU Students and Neighborhood Residents Take It to the Web, September 11, 2008
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September 19th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
When people can communicate, it can be for good or for worse. This situation shows that teenagers are ready to express their freedoms, even if the law takes them away.