{"175821":{"#nid":"175821","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Share Anonymous Praise on Facebook Page","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmid the stress of Dead Week and impending finals doom, one student took it upon himself to bring cheer to campus with a Facebook community called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/facebook.com\/georgiatechcompliments\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Compliments\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFacebook users can send a message to the page with a person\u2019s name and a compliment about him or her. The page manager, who wished to remain as anonymous as his contributors, posts the messages to the page. Fans follow up by tagging the subject\u2019s name, which notifies them of the compliment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTech has the appearance of being cold and unwelcoming, and I was hoping I could do some part to change that,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe creator started the page as a study break early Tuesday morning, after seeing similar online communities at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/usccompliments1\u0022\u003EUniversity of Southern California\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/emory.compliments\u0022\u003EEmory University\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo far, the page has more than 1,000 likes and has posted more than 60 compliments about those in the Tech community. The page manager said he fields around six to seven submissions per hour, with increases after a compliment is posted and in the evenings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough starting it during Dead Week wasn\u2019t the plan, he knew it would be a time when people could use a confidence boost. Response to the page thus far has made it worth the sacrifice of precious study time, and two additional students will soon share the load of posting comments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u0027s been extremely rewarding to see people happy and excited just to see that their hard work and dedication is being recognized,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday, one anonymous contributor sent a compliment to all Tech students: \u201cYou are the brightest, most hard working bunch of people I know. I wish I could give you all a scholarship \u2014 what an awesome bunch of students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe compliments idea is not the first to circulate among universities nationwide. In February, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeorgiaTechMemes\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Memes\u003C\/a\u003E joined Facebook after similar pages existed at other universities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmid the stress of Dead Week, one student is bringing cheer to campus with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/facebook.com\/georgiatechcompliments\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Compliments\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Amid the stress of Dead Week, one student is bringing cheer to campus with Georgia Tech Compliments."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-12-06 17:19:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:18","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/georgiatechcompliments","title":"Georgia Tech Compliments"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10835","name":"Facebook"},{"id":"52261","name":"georgia tech compliments"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}