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The Best Reason for YouTube: PostSecret Video

August 12, 2007

My friend K. (you remember her, the woman who invented bookswapping for me?) introduced me to Frank Warren and his incredible PostSecret world in 2004. Now Warren's publisher has created an elegant little video explaining that world.

I wish I could embed the player for this video right here in this post -- the spirit is willing, but the tech (or at least the tech savvy) is weak. So I urge you to watch right now.

Frank Warren doesn't simply collect people's secrets (he has famously said there are two kinds: those we keep from others, and those we keep from ourselves); he urges people to share and make something as elaborate as they like of them... so that they feel they've unburdened themselves. They say confession is good for the soul... but Frank Warren hopes that it's also good for the body. He wants to prevent suicide, and he actively supports The National Hopeline Network (1-800-SUICIDE).

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Posted by Bethanne Patrick on August 12, 2007 | Comments (5)


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August 13, 2007
In response to: The Best Reason for YouTube: PostSecret Video
Kevin A. Lewis commented:

Hmmm... An online forum for icky personal secrets and ickier fantasies disguised as same... They tried this a few years back, didn't they? What was it called... Oh, yeah-the Internet!




August 19, 2007
In response to: The Best Reason for YouTube: PostSecret Video
Anon commented:

Kevin, if you took the time to have a look at this website you would realise it is so much more and in no sense "icky" as you so Americanly put it. Sometimes all people need is a safe place to let it out. This is a meeting place of those minds. Besides i'm sure your secretly wishing you had the guts to use it.




August 20, 2007
In response to: The Best Reason for YouTube: PostSecret Video
cookie cutter commented:

testing...




August 20, 2007
In response to: The Best Reason for YouTube: PostSecret Video
Bethanne commented:

Cookie Cutter et al, if you're having trouble posting, please send me an email: thereadingwriter at aol dot com. Several people have mentioned this to me and I want to ask about it. Thanks!




August 20, 2007
In response to: The Best Reason for YouTube: PostSecret Video
Kevin A. Lewis commented:

Actually, Anon, I find secrets are best when stored in a wine cellar till ripe for tasting, or confined behind electric wire with DANGER: FORBIDDEN ZONE signs posted to keep unwary hikers from being yuckked out by the nameless horrors within... Naturally in the latter case armed patrols in hazmat suits should often visit to make sure the nameless horrors are behaving themselves! In any event, secrets are a natural resource too valuable to be scattered online for all and sundry... "Cast not your pearls" and all that, what?





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