A sorority girl went off the rails last week when she sent an e-mail out to the members of her chapter, chastising them for poor behavior in an expletive ridden e-mail.
The e-mail went viral after being released on Gawker with the title, "The Most Deranged Sorority Girl E-mail You Will Ever Read." It was sent by an officer of the Delta Gamma sorority at the University of Maryland.
"In this Internet day and age, just assume that everything you put out into the ethers in writing is the equivalent of LiveJournals of yore," Brenna Ehrlich, a senior editor at MTV and a CNN Tech contributor told CNN. "Someone is going to read it and mock you. Proceed carefully."
The sorority has since announced that they have accepted the resignation of the letter writer.
"The tone and content of the email was highly inappropriate and unacceptable by any standard," Delta Gamma said in a written statement on their Facebook page. "The email content should not reflect on any sorority woman in general or any fraternal organization at large."
"This email should not be depicted in any way as standard or routine or tied to any official sorority voice," the statement continued. "It is not an official voice or message and should not be construed as such."
"As all reasonable people can agree, this is an email that should never have been sent by its author," the statement added. "Period."
The letter went viral in part as a result of it aligning to the stereotype of sorority girls as "mean girls."
"Even when confronted with countless examples of offensive, dumb or clueless content that's gone viral, most people think it just won't happen to them, that what they say isn't significant enough to even get attention," Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com told CNN.
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