“(PostSecret ( http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ ) is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.)” Sounds simple enough right? Frank Warren, the site’s creator, has started something big. Each postcard is a work of art. Each illustrating the secret it depicts. Some are funny — one, covered in Post-Its, message notes and paperclips states “I waste office supplies because I hate my boss”—some are sad — another, with a photo of a real arm next to a photo of a prosthetic one, reads “I smile sweetly and pretend to sympathize with my friends who are always fighting with their mothers. I would give my left arm just to have my mother alive to fight with.”
There are also a couple of points to keep in mind about the website. PostSecret is the largest advertisement free blog on the web. PostSecret is also requesting from readers that the secrets be MAILED on a homemade postcard. In a time of instant emails and the World Wide Web this is a refreshing break to the norm. Although there is a feature on the site (PostSecret Community) which allows readers to upload a secret voice recording, the meat and potatoes of the site is still the mailed in secrets. There are also PostSecret books and sold out speaking events. It seems everyone has a secret, and everyone needs to share.
