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=HKU Dry Club=

HKU Dry Club is a Facebook page which was founded on the 17th December, 2012. There are 5 administrators(admins) in total now: Admin #1, Giant Deal(巨鵰), Ah Keung(阿強), Oldest Auntie (大姨媽) and Choco. It is a page which allows Facebook users to express and deliver their own stories or opinions anonymously. The stories are mainly about love as the page devotes itself for university love stories. Users can also send in funny pictures around campus anonymously. The stories were sent via google documents: one for Love stories, another for the submission of pictures (DSnap).

History
It was first started by 4 HKU students. The word “Dry” in the name of this page means not only the loneliness of the lack of love but also represent students’ dissatisfaction in life. Advertisements are avoided to be featured on the page as the admins do not want Dry Club to appeal to be a commercial platform and violates the purpose of the page.

Aside from sharing stories online, HKU Dry Club also tried to host different events, such as holding parties or producing printed hoodies. Despite it has just set up for almost eighteen months, it has successfully attracted twenty thousand of university students to comment and “like” their page. It is worth nothing that the users of the page does not confine to students of University of Hong Kong, but also students from different tertiary institutions.

However, on February 2014, the HKU Dry Club has split up and some administrators left the club and created another page, HK Dry Club. Some administrators alleged and condemned Admin #1 of his dominance of the page and dishonest behavior of pretending to be other administrators, using their names to leave comments.

Aims
According to the interview done by the Apple Daily, the Administrators set up the page of HKU dry club because they found the university life boring and hope to provide their schoolmates a platform for them to chat happily. Generally, the success of the page often attributes to the unique and interesting comments given by the administrators. All in all, HKU Dry Club has a good interaction among the administrators and viewers. The administrators also dare to talk about controversial topics such as Homosexuality.

Incidents:
'''December 2012

10th-''' HKU Bachelor Club Facebook page launched specially for single University students at HKU

15th- HKU Bachelor Club started selling hoodies, raising funds for Obris

17th- HKU Dry Club Facebook page launched for single students

18th- HKU Bachelor Club found their idea being stolen, designed a hoodie with ”I’m proud of stealing ideas” in sarcasm to Dry Club

'''2013

Jan 13-''' First dating event by Dry Club, First official interview done by Face Magazine, one of the admin, Owen, firstly showed up himself

Apr 21 – The Trend of Secret page began, Dry Club initiated Secret sharing link, gathering love stories from likers

May 11- Dry Club started sharing interesting photos from other pages, e.g. 9gag, Plastic Thing etc and kept posting love stories. Firstly reached 2,000 “likes”

2014 Feb

12th – Dry Club organized first valentines’ party in Central.

19th – Dry Club sells “Holyshit” hoodie，in sarcasm to “Hollister”, one of the favorite brands of University students.

28th – A Facebook event, 齊齊Unlike DryClub大行動. (Let’s unlike DryClub), had been created

2014 Mar 4th – Appeared on local newspaper, Apple daily, titled《港大生搞Dry Club安撫過萬dry爆大學生》(University students setting up HKU Dry Club in purpose to comfort several thousands DRY students)

9th - HK Dry Club Facebook page launched, officially separated from HKU Dry Club.

Admin Profile
1. Name: Admin #1 Age: 20 Sex: male Height: 175cm Description: Chairman of Face Association, HKUSU Dry Quotation: Being a human without self-acknowledge, is the same as a nerd.

2. Name: Giant deal(巨鵰) Age:20 Sex: male Height: 182cm Dry Quotation: I am a Giant deal(巨鵰) who needs to keep flying without legs, so that I can fly away.

3. Name: Ah Keung (呀強) Age: 19 Sex：even Admin#1 may not know my gender Height: unknown Description：short, nerd, unfashionable, poor Dry Quotation：If you don’t woo the one you like and buy the things you like, you would never know you will fail to go for someone you like and buy something which you cannot afford.

4. Name: Oldest Aunt (大姨媽) Age: 21 Sex: Female Height: 160cm Description: sensitive but not sexy, everlasting love but not constant in love Dry Quotation: You will understand you should live the way you like after being loved, hurt, hated and falling down

5. Name: Choco Age: 21 Sex: Female Height: please refer to the height of cute girls Description: bodied and simple-minded, there’s only one goal in my life - getting married. Quotation: The difference of a dream and being too imaginative (FF: Final fantasy, a phrase being used widely and interpreted as too imaginative) is not about whether there’s a plan or an action, is about whether you are good-looking or have a perfect and hot body.

The admins who left:

1. Name: Admin Fate (Formerly known as Admin #2) Age: 20 Height: 180cm Description: Being admired by the founders of Dryclub at the beginning of the foundation of Dry club, Straight-forward. The masterpiece is : Dryclub admin professional advices Dry Quotation: The recent 20 years, those girls who had feelings on him wouldn’t like me, End.

2. Name: Admin Widow B. Sex: female Age: unknown Height: unknown Description: love playing, hate having examinations Dry Quotation:The fact is: not every girls close with boys are the valkyrie who gathers men.

3. Name: Admin Queen k SEX: female Age: unknow (Age is the secret of women) Height: unknown Description: DRY lol DRY quotation: forever alone

4. Name: Admin flower-pretty-man Age: 20years old Sex: which gender do u think I am? Height: 170-175 Description: A man who are a committee of 2 cabinets has advantages that he won’t gamble and pay for whore Dry Quotation: There is one common ground between girls and GPA - hard to go for it!