nostalgia

Who remembers PostSecret?

This community art project was created in 2005. People were invited to anonymously mail in their secrets on a postcard. Readers saw themselves reflected in strangers’ confessions. These handwritten admissions countered the polished and performative sharing beginning to form on social media at the time.

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Revisiting these, they read to me like social media posts now because (some) people treat online spaces as confessionals more. Even scrolling through the FC feed at times feels no different than what people might have said on PostSecret.

I remember! I loved this and even had the book!

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I had completely forgotten about it when it landed in my brain out of nowhere after many years!

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There was just something about the handwritten notes that felt very striking to me at the time. Funny how in revisiting it, I don't feel the same impact.

*love* overheards - including all the spinoffs across different cities + campuses.

I was a reader and bought the book but sold it on a zen phase 

So much better than the “crypto untolds” and such on social media now.

Also from that era: Overheard in New York was a great Twitter account

I remember the earliest version of it being something like message in a bottle but it was on the early days of the internet. Nothing physical I could remember. Probably not popular in my country anyway.

Was there an equivalent confessional space that was iconic for you when you were young? I've been wondering what the next generation of PostSecret was / will be.

That is so cool. Was too young for that sadly.