Over at WWD, there's a story on the storm brewing around dueling teen-magazine messageboards. Although YM folded in 2004, YM.com is alive and well, because that magazine's subscribers were moved to the Teen Vogue database. Since then, things have gotten, well, a little scratchy! To wit: A YM poster called Teen Vogue readers "rich girls mostly who don't give a blank about anyone but themselves and their credit cards." Then, a Teen Vogue poster wrote "the YMers don't have a heart, they are jealous of us because we have style, and they do not." Me-ouch!

The bad blood has gotten so bad, the communities have been going so far to disrupt one another's boards by going undercover on spy-like missions and spamming one another with posts of pornography. A girl speaking her mind is nothing new, but are these girls more likely to also say evil things by the lockers between Chemistry and French because they're used to writing them online? And since some of these chicks are clever, crafty and cunning — self-admitted masters of subterfuge ("We [write posts like we're] psycho stalker sex crazed rapist-murderers or really stupid girls") — wouldn't it be awesome if they could be recruited into the CIA? Maybe if they put their differences aside, teenage girls could find bin Laden!

Memo Pad [WWD]