“I f*cked my alt and I liked it”, “I love you completely in Second Life but on the phone I hate your voice.”, and “I hate my customers, I hate my friends list, this game sucks since you left, I wish I could stop playing.”). I can see that the early archived posts on SLSecret tended to be posted by people interested in sharing secrets about themselves (e.g. It’s a risk-free way of being vulnerable, and can be a rehearsal for sharing one’s secrets with whom one cares more deeply about. Many people find relief by sharing secrets, especially anonymously. That seems to me like a such a great idea. Basically, I wanted to issue the same challenge to the SL community.” Many of the things people send in are heartbreaking, uplifting and works of art in their own right. How did that happen?Īccording to the website’s About page, the founder of the site (Iris Seale) said she wanted to create a site “like PostSecret, where people send their secrets in on postcards and those cards are published on the web and in books. Today, it seems more like a forum for people to anonymous accuse their fellow residents of behaving badly. What is most interesting to me about this site is that it started as a forum for people to anonymously share their secrets (like PostSecret) with the wider world. Secretly love it or publicly loathe it, SLSecrets has been around since 2008, and if the number of daily posts and comments are any reflection of its popularity, the website shows no signs of losing momentum. “Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed”, Erica Jong
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