Public Anonymous Confessions

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

"Today, I received my passport in the mail. They got my birthdate wrong. Then I picked up my birth certificate that I had sent in with the application. Turns out my parents have been celebrating my birthday on the wrong day for 16 years. FML" -Fmylife.org

People are quite intrigued by others' little stories, especially when it's really personal. People gets brutally honest and sincere when they're masked behind the word "anonymous".

These are a few public anonymous confession sharing web sites that I've discovered and exposed to....

PostSecret by Frank Warren
"PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard."

Group Hug by Gabriel Jeffrey
"a place for anonymous confessions, with no editorial bias."

We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris
"Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.)."

Fmylife by Maxime Valette
"Fmylife.com is a UFO on the web. The site is a recollection of everyday anecdotes likely to happen to anyone. They are published on the site and written exclusively by our users. This site is a place to “let it all out” and unwind by sharing those little things that screw with your day; it allows you to realize that you are not alone. Posts are meant to start by 'Today' and end by 'FML'. The site aims to be fun to read everyday."

You touched, yet?

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