The anonymous student confessions Facebook page is preparing to return to Northern Michigan University with new management, a new title and a new set of goals.
Following its conclusion at the end of the last academic year, NMU Confessions is slated to return this semester in the form of Taccd, an independently-run website. While similar anonymous posting pages can still be located on Facebook, the original forum has been passed down from its original owner to sophomore graphic design major John Tamburino.
Tamburino, assisted by three other NMU students, said he redesigned the original page into a form that could expand well beyond the campus and even the city of Marquette.
“I got the idea [when] we were in a TV room and I overheard a conversation,” Tamburino said. “I just got the idea, ‘What if we did something not just for NMU, but we would bring all of the colleges together under one website?’ This way, students can interact with other students from other campuses and, if you want to hear about confessions from other schools, you could do that as well.”
According to Tamburino, the anonymous student confessions Facebook page is preparing to return to Northern Michigan University with new management, a new title and a new set of goals.
Following its conclusion at the end of the last academic year, NMU Confessions is slated to return this semester in the form of Taccd, an independently-run website. While similar anonymous posting pages can still be located on Facebook, the original forum has been passed down from its original owner to sophomore graphic design major John Tamburino.
Tamburino, assisted by three other NMU students, said he redesigned the original page into a form that could expand well beyond the campus and even the city of Marquette.
“I got the idea [when] we were in a TV room and I overheard a conversation,” Tamburino said. “I just got the idea, ‘What if we did something not just for NMU, but we would bring all of the colleges together under one website?’ This way, students can interact with other students from other campuses and, if you want to hear about confessions from other schools, you could do that as well.”
According to Tamburino, the new website could link together other confessions pages from across the nation’s universities and improves on the old model used in last year’s Facebook page, as well as the other pages that are similarly structured. Tamburino said people can access Taccd’s website and ask to be notified when the program is released.
“On our website, you can subscribe or sign up to get an email notification when we are getting closer to launch and that one is actually moving up quite fast,” Tamburino said. “The confessions pages nowadays are all through Facebook and Facebook likes, which mean more for those types of pages. The email subscriptions for us work a lot better because our service is actually going to be through a website and not through Facebook.”
Curtis Liedel, Tamburino’s roommate and sophomore mechanical engineering major, is one of the four students working on the website. Liedel said the website has already started focusing on expanding to other Michigan schools
“I guess right now we are doing 105 colleges just in Michigan that [John] is working on right now and we are just going to do that through each state,” Liedel said “We’ll go out and look for a list and some states have so many colleges. It is going to take a while just to do that, itself.”
With the rise of newer social technology, Tamburino said he hopes the website can begin utilizing other methods for people to access.
“We would love to [see it go mobile],” Tamburino said. “Right now, I have mobilized the current splash page so, if you do view it on your phone it should work pretty well. In terms of an app, if it takes off well, we would definitely like to develop one as soon as possible.”
According to Tamburino and Liedel, the group has slated the launch of Taccd to occur within the next five weeks. The other members of the Taccd team include sophomore mechanical engineering majors John Grassmyer and Steven Giles.
Tamburino said the team aims to maintain the website as an improved version of the old NMU Confessions while creating Taccd as its own independent entity.
“We want to keep it as positive as we can,” Tamburino said. “Obviously, some things may be said and we’ll have to go in and delete or fix the posts. As a school’s image, we want to keep it as positive as possible from our standpoint.”
People can access Taccd and sign up for an email subscription for when the site is launched at www.taccd.com.
“We are just excited to see how it takes off and we don’t expect it to take off immediately,” Liedel said. “Obviously, we’d like to see it rise a little bit.”
