Social Media Spin

For cor­po­ra­tions as a whole, the answer is ‘Not Likely’, since social media — right or wrong — has ren­dered busi­nesses Rad­i­cally Trans­par­ent. But for indi­vid­ual social media users, one Twit­ter broad­cast site offers a way for users to unbur­den their soul and con­fess their secrets with­out fear of ret­ri­bu­tion, Post Secret style. 

SecretTweet.com allows anony­mous post­ing of your deep­est dark­est secrets via Twit­ter. Here’s SecretTweet.com ‘s descrip­tion of their site. “Pub­lish your Secrets to Twitter.com anony­mously. Shhhh!”

A few min­utes after arriv­ing at the blog, I read secrets posted about cut­ting, dat­ing dis­as­ters, mar­i­tal affairs, polit­i­cal prej­u­dice against a job appli­cant, etc. It’s a bit dark and depress­ing content-​​wise, but as voyeuris­tic as I felt watch­ing the secrets scroll by, I found that I was also oddly cap­ti­vated and had a hard time break­ing away from the long list of secrets.

Now if only irrate cus­tomers would post their gripes anony­mously, online rep­u­ta­tion man­age­ment might have a much smaller market.

What other anony­mous post­ing sites have you found?