Books/Website: PostSecret

Secrets. We all have them. We all wonder who may share the same secret as us. We also wonder who might know our secret. Have you ever had the desire to just scream at the top of your lungs, blurting out all of your deepest and darkest secrets? But wait, then everyone would know what you’ve been hiding and you don’t exactly want that to happen, right? I mean, people do tend to have a cruel way of judging, coming to conclusions, and disowning once they find out something completely crazy about somebody. Sad but let’s face it… people do, do that. Well here’s your chance to share your secret with the world while staying COMPLETELY anonymous. It’s called PostSecret

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My friend Whitney introduced me to PostSecret about 4 years ago and I have been hooked ever since. It’s a website that was created back in 2005 by Frank Warren. It started off as a random project and has since then turned into a world phenomenon. People decorate postcards with their secret and send it to Frank with complete and total anonymity. Frank then decides which postcards he thinks he should post on the website and which ones he should publish into his books. Every Sunday Frank posts a new batch of secrets on his site. There are absolutely no boundaries on what one posts on their card. Secrets range form sex and religion, dreams and aspirations, to abuse and criminal activities and beyond.

Frank has published 4 PostSecret books filled with hundreds of postsecret postcards. I must admit… I own all 4 of them and I definitely plan on purchasing the 5th one on October 6th! (Confessions on Life, Death, & God)

1.) PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

2.) My Secret: A PostSecret Book

3.) The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book

4.) A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book

If interested in buying any of these books go to your local bookstore such as Borders and Barnes & Noble. Make sure you flip through your book carefully though… Sometimes people go to the bookstore and slip their own postcard/piece of paper with their secret written on it between the pages of the PostSecret books instead of mailing them in. It’s pretty cool. It allows the buyer of that book to find a little surprise and an extra secret that no one else has in their book. I am one of the lucky people who have received an extra secret in one of the books. I was so excited! Then when I was reading this slipped in secret my mouth flew open. I was in total shock. It was like I knew exactly who wrote this secret and that it was written to me specifically. I highly doubt it is from this person because what are the chances? But you never know! Here’s the secret I got —>

Anyway, I thought I would share this amazing site and concept with all of you. I guess you can say it’s like a coping mechanism in some type of way, especially when you’re reading a secret and realize that you have the same one!

One last thing… Frank is on tour right now so if you’re interested in listening to him and hearing what he has to say then check him out in a city near you! Check out www.postsecret.com for tour dates and to read this weeks secrets!

Also check out  www.postsecretcommunity.com

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