Spending hours upon hours in front of a computer screen, or any kind of screen to that matter, is not often an activity I choose to engage in. This is largely due to the fact that I lack the time, energy and attention span to do so on a somewhat regular basis. However the single website I have found myself frequenting quite often is the PostSecret homepage. The idea behind this website is ideal for the modern American culture in which there are limited personal connections and honest interactions between people. The concept is simple, people create 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material containing their deepest darkest secrets and mail them to the people at PostSecret. The people at PostSecret look through them and post a new batch of chosen secrets every Sunday.
Its an interesting phenmenon behind the appeal of this site, everyone wants to know secrets, everyone wants to know the latest dish, everyone wants to laugh at people pathetic, creepy, and depressing secrets and also let a couple of things off their own chests. PostSecret offers all that in addition to the factor of anonymity, a safe medium for people to say whatever they want to, to whoever they want to, without being exposed. It has created an intriguing web-based porthole into the secret lives of the people we work and live with that seems to have grasped onto the public eye without any intent of letting go any time soon.
In addition to the site's success on the web, Frank Warren, the establishor of the site, has also had numerous successes in his book publishings of the secrets sent. There are 3 PostSecret books so far, in addition to an expected several more to come. His books are available just about everywhere books are sold.
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