Anonymity has always been the main highlight of the internet. You can share your thoughts without fear of reprisal in real life, because its difficult to connect them to who you are. In a way that leads to the development of bad behavior (internet trolls) but its not all negative. The internet also allows you to social share in a public sphere while keeping your privacy. It’s helpful when you need support and encouragement (even if its from people you don’t know).

Post Secret was a popular blog which served that purpose, allowing users to send in postcards with their secrets written on it. A few other websites did something similar by allowing and highlighting anonymous posts. Now you can do this with Twitter as well. SecretTweet allows you to send it anonymous tweets via its web interface, which will be published not only on their website but also the @secrettweet account which has over 10K followers.

All the comments are approved by the site owner and the unapproved tweets are displayed in the unabridged section. The approved and published content doesn’t differ much from the rejected submissions.. I took a look and found that some of the rejected material were clean enough to be featured but I guess they didn’t please the site moderator enough. Why should some non-discriminatory, non-vulgar content be rejected while others are approved? It’s hard to place a value or worth on shared secrets.

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