it's work to confess

The New York Times weighs in on a website I mentioned earlier, PostSecret. Reviewer Sarah Boxer is intrigued by the secret sharers, but casts a somewhat harsh glare on what she perceives as their main motive.

The secret sharers here aren't mindless flashers but practiced strippers. They don't want to get rid of their secrets. They love them. They arrange them. They tend them. They turn them into fetishes. And that's the secret of PostSecret. It isn't really a true confessional after all. It is a piece of collaborative art.

She never goes so far as to say the card-senders are lying, but that seems to be what she is implying. Call me a sucker, but some of the secrets are just too painful to not be true.