Love letter Facebook pages on campus have taken off in the last handful of years, and they now tell the return to campus story.
he met his wife during orientation week by approaching her at a breakfast table and asking, “have you readThese days, many university campus communities have associated ‘love letters’ Facebook pages, where students can anonymously submit adoring confessions in the hope that their crush is reciprocated.
The University of Melbourne’s students have been the busiest, with UniMelb Love Letters posting 1413 times since the start of the year, only around 300 fewer than the total number of posts last year. Love letters are submitted anonymously through an online form, which get sent to moderators of the Facebook page.
UniMelb Love Letters has over 51,000 followers, head and shoulders above the student union, with just over 32,000 followers, and the student magazine,The anonymous ‘crush’ submission service provider, CrushNinja, says on its website that it is used by thousands of Facebook pages.