PostSecret is a website I try to visit often. It's strange, but there really is a great comfort that people find in sharing their own and reading others’ secrets. It’s such an interesting phenomenon. It’s incredible what you’re willing to share and say when you have no idea who you’re talking to. A couple weekends ago, there was a secret posted about committing suicide, and it had such an overwhelming response from readers that someone created aFacebook group telling this anonymous person "please don't jump." the response was overwhelming and amazing--There were over 59,000 members, so large they had to convert it to a different kind of page on Facebook which is at 8,600 members and quickly counting. It also got coverage in on Time Magazine's News Feed in an article entitled, "Can PostSecret and Facebook Save a Life?"
The anonymous kindess that is shown here is so powerful. It's just ... wow. It's like I don't even know how to respond to the secret or to the reaction that followed. Kindness spreads so quickly in the virtual world, and I can't help but wonder where that rapid spreading of kindness is in the real world. Yeah, that's right, the real world, the world that so many of us have forgotten about because we are so distracted by our Facebooks and Twitter and blogs (yep, guilty as charged). And even when we are not on our usernames and tweet names, we are thinking about the next time we are going to be. No more rants about that, it's all been said before but I guess this is just me saying I agree with it all. An age of distraction indeed.
That actually reminds me of a song called "iGeneration" by MC Lars.
Alison, out!
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