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Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :

This website (PostSecret) is absolutely mind-blowing.

The concept is that you make an anonymous postcard by hand with a secret on it that you have never told anyone, and send it to this address. The fellow who runs the site scans it and puts it online.

Bizarre? A bit. But many people have found it incredibly theraputic...

And, with secrets like:

"Everyone who knew me before 9/11 believes I'm dead."

AND

"When I was a young teenager I used to babysit my next door neighbours son. When he was asleep I would go into their bedroom and go through their bedside drawers. I found a packet of condoms. I put a pin through the middle of each one of them, and thus ensured myself another 5 years of babysitting."

...I can see how this would help.

The postcards themselves, by nature of being handmade, express so much emotion it simply becomes overwhelming, from the more complicated ones to the simple crushers.

Edit: the image URL's don't work. I know.

[ April 04, 2005, 09:23 PM: Message edited by: HRE ]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Wow. How many of them do you suppose are real?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Dead links.

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

wow.

That's amazing.

Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :

That is the first time I've ever been denied access to a site, for anything other than forgetting a password. Are you sure these are clean enough for hatrack?

Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :

They're secrets that have never been told. What do you think?

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Huh. I dunno... I guess if I couldn't write music it could be theraputic.

Posted by Jonathan K. (Member # 7720) on :

It's dead links, but I bet that they are probably made up.

Posted by Jonathan K. (Member # 7720) on :

where's the logic in wrighting out your deepest darkest secrets for all the world to see, sounds fake.

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

I could see how some of them could be theraputic. Like if you didn't want to tell a specific person, but needed to get it off your chest.

One way to find out if they're real: someone send one in and see if they post it...

Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :

The link to the site is not dead. You can go look at them yourself.

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

I tried...it said access denied, even though I am at home, with no fitler on my computer.

Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

There's nothing wrong with the site, it's just a blog. Don't worry about the content.

Very interesting though, and oddly, I think that most of them are true. There's just something interesting about the homemade cards that keeps me from being skeptical...

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

There's one that says, "I make everyone believe that I like to be different, but really I just don't know how to fit in."

Wow. That's my life until I found my husband.