POST SECRET

PAGINA PRINCIPAL: POST SECRET

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. It is created by Frank Warren, who selects secrets and then they are posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.

PostSecret began in the year 2004 as a creative idea for an art show exhibit. Frank, the creator, decided to print out 3,000 one-sided postcards, inviting strangers to share a secret with him; something that was true and something they'd never told anyone else.

Many people instead of sending in their secrets, take their postcards to a bookstore and discreetly hide them between the pages of a PostSecret book. This spin-off activity means that the eventual purchaser of the book gets an unexpected secret to keep.

People began to hand-make their own postcards and the secrets kept coming. Not just from DC, but the idea seemed to spread virally. He started receiving secrets from people in different states, different continents and different languages. Now he's getting about 200 postcards a day.

He's been most surprised by the reaction that the project has had with other people. He gets e-mails all the time from people who say that facing their secret on a postcard and releasing it has brought them a sense of ownership in their own lives.

PostSecret is not a reflection of a highly dysfunctional society, quite the opposite. We keep secrets for a reason. The feelings, thoughts, beliefs and fears we hold in private are often the exact same thing that unite us with others. They're sometimes the most humanistic part of us.

CONCLUSION

La página de postsecret me pareció muy interesante. Primero que nada porque en mi opinión existe una gran necesidad actual que cubre esta página de crear circulos de confinza a partir del anonimato. Creo que el anonimato es la clave para que la gente se involucre con el proyecto para desahogarse. Me impresioné mucho de la fuerza de los mensajes. Creo que el creador de este sistema, Frank Warren, encontró una forma muy original y apasionante de escuchar y ayudar a la gente.