\nA postmodern morality play is unfolding online. We are still struggling to figure out what it means to be a human being on the internet. Anonymity makes communication easier, but it also makes it less meaningful. Can 30,000 strangers on the internet convince an anonymous person about which they know very little not to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge?\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n\n\tPostSecret<\/a>
\n\t— an art community art site that in which people mail their secrets in
\n\ton homemade postcards, anonymously, then said secrets get posted online
\n\t— has joined efforts with Facebook to save the life of a San
\n\tFranciscan who, according to a recently
\n\tpublished postcard<\/a>, could commit suicide this summer.\n\t<\/p>\n\n\tThe card, which was posted on June 6, reads:\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\tI have lived in San Francisco since I was young. I
\n\t\tam illegal. I am not wanted here. I don’t belong anywhere. This summer I
\n\t\tplan to jump off the Golden Gate. <\/em>\n\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\tSince the postcard went live, a Facebook
\n\tpage aimed at saving the life of the author<\/a> now boasts over 32,000
\n\tmembers. Time<\/a>
\n\treports: “Within 24 hours, nearly 20,000 people had signed up for a
\n\tFacebook group titled \u201cplease don\u2019t jump,\u201d which was later linked
\n\tbeneath the secret on the Post Secret blog, linking in thousands of
\n\tsupportive comments.”\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nLink<\/a> (via sfist)
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![recently\n\tpublished postcard<\/a>, could commit suicide this summer.\n\t<\/p>\n\n\tThe card, which was posted on June 6, reads:\n\t<\/p>\n\n\t\tI have lived in San Francisco since I was young. I\n\t\tam illegal. I am not wanted here. I don’t belong anywhere. This summer I\n\t\tplan to jump off the Golden Gate. <\/em>\n\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\tSince the postcard went live, a Facebook\n\tpage aimed at saving the life of the author<\/a> now boasts over 32,000\n\tmembers. Time<\/a>\n\treports: “Within 24 hours, nearly 20,000 people had signed up for a\n\tFacebook group titled \u201cplease don\u2019t jump,\u201d which was later linked\n\tbeneath the secret on the Post Secret blog, linking in thousands of\n\tsupportive comments.”\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nLink<\/a> (via sfist)\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A postmodern morality play is unfolding online. We are still struggling to figure out what it means to be a human being on the internet. Anonymity makes communication easier, but it also makes it less meaningful. Can 30,000 strangers on the internet convince an anonymous person about which they know very little not to jump … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_a7jkcMVp5Vg\/TArl2FBsvgI\/AAAAAAAAL_w\/EMgkgJtdFXE\/s1600\/GGB.jpg\"){kind=link}