UC Davis Students Sharing Bongs, Booze And Nudity Through Yeti Campus Stories
DAVIS (CBS13) — College students have a new app to post about their experience, and not the ones from the classroom.
Yeti Campus Stories is similar to Snapchat, and it features pictures and videos from different colleges around the country. The UC Davis version has pictures of dogs and outfits, but much of it is far from G-rated.
"Other people are going to be seeing that and be like oh the UC Davis students are doing this and we shouldn't be portraying that kind of image out to the public," said student Dinah Kim.
Pictures of students showing off bongs and booze were in the app, along with others with students mugging for the camera with a mouthful of marijuana, plus full-frontal nudity.
Thomas Dodson, a social-media professional, says many of the apps say the images disappear, but those images can be saved and they can also get students in trouble.
"It's on them—the onus is on Mom and Dad to continually drive that home and to continually have those conversations and make sure they understand the lasting and long-term ramifications of their online activities," he said.
Students we spoke to say it's no shock people party in college, but they hope their peers know better than to blast it out to the world.
"For some reason, if all this got leaked, and they wanted to do something like an important career, and there's pictures of them smoking a mega blunt which is on here, might come back to haunt them," said student Zack Dahla.