Post a Secret Online
For anyone who doesn't think that the World Wide Web changes the way in which we relate to the world, they need to read this. From PostSecret:"You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before."
To me, this is odd, to say the least. Why would I share a secret with a total stranger; much less with the knowledge that he would post it, so millions more strangers may see for themselves the dark spot on my soul? Of course, it works. Many people have sent their deepest darkest secrets to PostSecret and they just keep coming, I guess.
Another way that the 'Net has changed us is the fact that I have spent time looking at these secrets. It was somewhat like a train wreck: You cannot bear to look, but you cannot turn away. I was somewhat compelled to read at least a few of them, and many of them are very harsh, very messed up. A few are meant to be funny and lighthearted, but there are molestations and other horrible, horrible things on that page. It makes me want to take a shower, somehow...
posted by ERW @ 9:23 PM
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