Letting it Out
Photo: MyNameIsHarry (Creative Commons license from Flickr)
Sort of following up from my previous post… I’ve recently been thinking about the Cisco Fatty situation when it was doing the rounds; it might be nice to have a simple service that offers a channel to vent – anonymously. There’s various articles/posts related to the comfort people are exhibiting their lives and creating a virtual record for all to see all over the web. Some of which may be potentially detrimental to future collage acceptance and job prospects.
I was happy to find grouphug.us (thanks to Peppery who let me know about it). So if you just HAVE to let something out… maybe it’s better here than it is where your boss can find it. There’s also a project called PostSecret that allows anyone to get visually creative with their confession and mail in the physical postcard.
Is it unhealthy to harbour secrets? If so these places of collective admission certainly are healthy? But is it enough to actually rehabilitate… or is that not the goal?
Update: An article in the Los Angeles times Mark Cuban fined, Courney Love sued – over tweets You really do need to watch what you tweet.
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Interesting post. When I first started using twitter it was an “anything goes” virtual space. As time went on, I noticed “followers” and consciously started editing my outputs. Ditto my blog.
However… sometimes you just have to let go, and its nice to think you’ve shared. I think anonymous spaces are excellent, and catharsis is a worthy goal. But I believe we should all be conscious that ALL information on the net is potentially public. Basic solution: I just vent “thoughts I’ll never tweet” in a text file. Then purge regularly
Good call Amber, we are naive to think that anything we do is either private or anonymous these days. Yesterday at Future Perfect I read a post on Privacy & Marginal Costs quite interesting (and semi-related)