By Jaime Lopez

Verge Editor

The creators of EIUConfessions posted their brainchild on Facebook and Twitter on Feb. 24, and once the student population caught wind of the latest Eastern trend, the confessions kept pouring in. 

Q: Firstly — and I think everyone who reads your Twitter and Facebook pages wants to know this — what motivated you to start EIUConfessions?

A: 1 a.m. Monday night boredom. We saw other schools had pages like this and decided to make our own because of all the crazy times we have experienced, and others have as well.

Q: How many posts are you currently getting a day? Do you post all of them? Are there ever times when you don’t post something because it’s too particular or just way too offensive?

A: Sometimes we’ll get 200 a day, sometimes we’ll get 10, depends on how active we are. We don’t post all of them, we don’t include names, we don’t post anything racist, and we don’t like anything malicious about Greek life, but we still post about houses.

Q: Are you watching over the pages every weekend?

A: We don’t really check on the weekend, it’s mostly something we do when we don’t feel like doing homework.

Q: Are you ever worried that people will discover who you are?

A: Not really.

Q: Do you ever feel guilty about the things you post? I mean, you don’t write them — they’re other people’s confessions — but are you ever concerned for the people involved, even if their identities are never revealed?

A: We don’t feel guilty because they aren’t our words, if someone asks for something to be removed we do delete it.

Q: EIUConfesstions became an overnight success, has the thought that EIUConfessions may lose its popularity ever crossed your mind? Does that even worry you?

A: We don’t really care. Like we said, this is just something to entertain us when we are procrastinating. It honestly can be overwhelming with people complaining about us not posting enough for them.

Q: Have you received threats from Eastern students about the content found on both of your pages? If you have, what do they normally consist of? And do you just brush them, or are you actually concerned?

A: Older people will complain and threaten to get the police involved. Some people complain about the Greek posts. We were actually blocked on Twitter for all of 20 minutes once. We don’t think anything will happen; a teacher actually commented on a post where we asked if we should stop posting about Greeks and he said, “Post what you want.”

Q; What has EIUConfessions taught you about Eastern’s students?

A: People are weird, especially when they’re drunk.

Q: Do you think you’ll ever reveal your identities to Eastern’s population like the original Chuck Vegas? If so, when? If not, why?

A: Maybe one day when we’re over it.

Q: Are you men or women?

A: Three women.

Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-2812 or jlopez2@eiu.edu.