Many John Carroll students will follow the requisite Instagram accounts like the university’s official page, SUPB, and dining services. These, I would consider, to be the bare minimum of JCU social pages. You will get your classic donor-bait, info about rarely-attended events, and inedible food provided by the Caf. Most of the information is unhelpful and/or doesn’t pertain to your daily life.
The next tier of Instagrams comes from anonymous student-run accounts. These include your average “overheard” and “complements” pages. Like any small university, the “complements” page features anonymous submissions from those students too afraid to confess their true feelings as well as those who DM compliments from themselves. Maybe the worst offender among student accounts would be those with “overheard” in the handle. Every post seems to be a copy-pasted cliche or an over-exaggeration of average things JCU students say. Sometimes it’s genuinely painful to read the posts.
