Many of you have probably heard of the immensely popular website, PostSecret. Every Sunday evening you can find me reading the many secrets posted at PostSecret in a last ditch effort to avoid my homework.
For those of you who don't know what PostSecret is, it's a website that was created by this guy named Frank as a place where anyone can anonymously send in postcards with their secrets written on them and have the chance of seeing their secrets posted online. For people who have dark secrets weighing them down, it's a great way to anonymously get the secret of their chest, or to even help them open up to the ones they love.
What I find most interesting about this website is not only the amazingly weird, sad, funny, and horrible secrets that people are keeping out there, but also the interesting artwork that can be found on many of the postcards. In fact, some of the art is so amazing that the website has been nominated for two Webby Awards, one of them being in NetArt. (The other is for the Blog).
Over the pasts few years, PostSecret has become amazingly popular on college campuses. In fact, it has become so popular that Frank has taken PostSecret on tour to colleges across the U.S., sharing not only the secrets posted on his website, but also allowing people to come up on stage and share their own secrets.
Unfortunately, PostSecret has yet to come to the University of Iowa, but I know that if and when they do, I'll be there. I'm way too open of a person, so I really don't have any secrets to share. Basically I have verbal diarrhea and will tell anyone anything, even if they really don't want to know, but if you have a burning secret, get it off your chest. Send it in to PostSecret.
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