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SharedConfession for Lucy Loose Lips and Friends


SharedConfession is a new social network for sharing—you guessed it—secrets. It's a pretty straight forward site, and it operates much like an actual social network. You can create an account (pick a non-obvious username if you'd actually like to confess your secrets), and begin unloading the burdens of your soul. Since you have an account, all your confessions are aggregated. Other users can rate them, vote them up or down, or bury them completely. It's like Digg, plus PostSecret. You can even make friends. Found a particularly juicy user that loves to tell all? Subscribe to their RSS feed.

sharedconfession-categories.pngWhen you get the urge to share your secrets, give it a title, tag words and a description, and pick a category. The categories all reflect SharedConfession's affinity for the sinful side of us all: pride, gluttony, envy, etc. These are all rather leading categories that nearly force all of the confessions on the site to conform to one deadly sin or another. Additionally, you can subscribe to the feeds for each category. Confessions also support images, but not flash videos.

I found the lack of support for video inclusions a bit dismal,especially since there's a YouTube clip playing on every single page throughout the SharedConfession site. The clips feature people telling some restricted access information of some form, whether it be the confessions of a former pharmaceutical saleswoman to a Ford Model hinting you not to purchase clothing items with gold-colored buckles and studs, as the gold will fade and your attempt at a frugal lifestyle will indeed show through. So why is SharedConfession teasing us with video clips that we can't share ourselves? Sheez!


When it comes to the social end of things, SharedConfession can get you pretty darn involved. There are groups you can join, friends you can add, and a live look at the constantly updating secrets being published on the site, similar to BoredAt. Well, SharedConfession's live page isn't really all that alive just yet—the site officially launches tomorrow and the live updates on this page aren't very numerous just yet.

All in all, the Internet seems to be creating more and more outlets for the anonymous telling of all that we know, and given new IP protection tools (which I'm unsure about in regards to SharedConfession), there are actually ways in which to keep your identity completely hidden so you won't have to fear any backlash the confession that you actually watch YouPorn 25 times a day.

What I'm really waiting for is the combined efforts of secret-sharing sites with the tattle tale nature of sites like Twittertale, highlighting the secrets that really represent the bane of human existence. Then E! Entertainment will make a reality show of it, making good use of those face-blur circles we've all come to love. Or....SharedConfession could just shack up with fix8. That seemed to work for CAMfess.

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