Blog 2: My Fav

Postsecret is probably the most interesting and innovative blog I've come across. People send in post cards with their secrets, usually creatively done, and they are posted on the blog. Apparently, the blog became so popular that they created a book with copies of the postcards in it as well. The cards range from funny to down right suicidal. Why would someone create a blog like this? I'm not sure, but wanting to know about other people's secrets and wanting to share your own secrets is sort of a baseline human emotion. The need to share and the want to know things that you shouldn't. It also seems to be a sort of therapy for some people, being able to get things off their chest without people knowing who they are.


I personally feel drawn to the site. The range of emotions contained in the postcards is interesting and as a psychology student I enjoy looking at the post card art and analyzing it. Many of the cards are funny, some disgusting, and some depressing. The suicide cards get to me every time I read one. Makes me wonder if the people who control the project have so type of responsibility to help those people. The only complaint I have about the blog is that there is no archive, so you can only view 5-7 current post cards at a time.