http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Everybody check this out - it's some awesome artwork by anonymous artists sending in postcard secrets.

Some are really funny - others are pretty sad - but almost all are excellent.

This is one of the funnier examples:

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That is one of the most fantastic sites i've ever seen. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read such touching, personal, and insightful messages.

Really, i'm just blown away by some of the things these people say. I don't think i've had such a range of emotion in such little time.

Ummm... wow.

Really powerful stuff in there. I feel a little vorueristic on that site, like I'm looking into a part of people's psyche I shouldn't be.

I thought this was another excellent variation of the greatest website on the internet, Group Hug, but this one comes off as bland and unamusing, besides the 'I hate my husband for killing Iraqi's'. That's classic.

Next.

It seemed so setup, whereas Grouphug.us seems so believable.

Is that just me? It's probably due to the perfectly created postcards that makes me feel it's not as believabl as the raw passion that can come from Grouphug...

Yeah, I agree somewhat. I haven't visited grouphug, nor heard of it until I read your post, but the detail in the postcards does take away from the sense of it being a secret quickly and suddenly revealed.

I still think it's awesome though.

I think it's important to recognise that those post cards are works of art - many of them probably aren't literal - they somebody trying to convey a particular idea or emotion.

I gave grouphug a quick read... and well it seems like a bunch of whingers, just having a big whinge. "oh, i burnt my toast today". Sure, there are alot of intense posts, but there's a shitload of blog style crap as well.

PostSecret wins in my book.

PostSecret loses out on spur-of-the-moment passionate pleas for help that Grouphug offers. Each secret on Postsecret has taken ages to write up compared to GroupHug.

Group Hug wins in my book.

Wow, great site. Relly gets you thinking...

True, but I just love how a few words, and a picture relating to those words, can convey such emotion.

I don't get it. I'd make one of those postcards and not feel any better about stuff - what's the point?

Group hug is a cool site too - I really don't know if you can compare them though - it's a much different way of putting foward emotions.

Hello - I think the point is to express something. It's the same with the point of any piece of artwork - to get people to feel or understand how you feel. It doesn't need to be a practical point to art - art can achieve nothing but still be amazing - or at least I think so.

I don't really get it either.

Maybe that's because I don't have any secrets. Oh wait...

I fear that having an uncircumcised penis makes me less attractive.

Okay, now I have none.

Edit: Actually, some of the ones at the bottom are pretty good and eye-opening. The ones at the top seem a bit worse though.