50 Anonymously Shared Secrets That People Wouldn’t Dare To Confess In Real Life (New Posts)
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Keeping secrets is easier for some than it is for others; so is revealing them. Be that as it may, sharing something you’ve kept to yourself for a while might come as a relief. That’s why people tend to turn to a friend willing to lend an ear, for example, or confess their sins to a member of their church. A number of people nowadays choose to open up to no other than their trusty device and the almighty internet as well.
Received via a Google form, their confessions are then shared on the renowned ‘Fesshole’ Twitter account, which has become an internet sensation over the past five years. Created in June, 2018, the account has already amassed over 988k followers, as well as an abundance of submissions from people in need to lift the load weighing on their chest. If you’re interested to learn what it is they’ve managed to keep a secret until now, scroll down to find some of ‘Fesshole’s’ latest posts on the list below.
In order to learn more about ‘Fesshole’ and how sharing secrets affects a person, Bored Panda turned to the founder of the Twitter account, Rob Manuel, and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, Michael Slepian, who were kind enough to answer some of our questions. You will find both of their thoughts in the text below.
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I, a 50yo queer who has to work at it to pass, texted a new employee to confirm she was good to start the following Friday. From my work mobile, which was on several documents she was given and which was pointed out to her. “Hey Kehlani. It’s Marco from ********. Are you good to go this Friday?” She replied with, “F**k off, I got a boyfriend.” When she called the Monday after to find out when she was to begin, she was told she was a no show and we’ve rescinded the offer. Mostly because I’m not obligated to explain myself once someone speaks to me that way. Period.
Not once, not twice but three times normal looking man said to me "Excuse me" in very polite voice and when I react politely I was presented with his "sausage".
Not sure I (40+ het male)handle these situations the correct, right and/or best way ... but every time this situation has occurred, it has gone like this - (See lady drop something/about to leave something/whatever) Me: "Pardon me, Miss? You ..." Her, cutting me off: "I don't need your help/I have a BF/whatever" ... Me, cutting HER off, and speaking a little louder and more 'direct' "Your pocketbook!?/Your credit card!?/one of your bags of potting soil has a hole and you've lost half of it!!" ...
Wick, the whole point I think is, these types don't Deserve our being nice. They are assuming somebody Wants them? Nobody Wants Them. I'm not not LGBTQ, I'm a person. And I don't care what anybody does with whomever they choose, consenting adults. Nobody needs to ask me. I don't need to ask. I respect all. Her behavior is assuming. She's not a beauty queen, I'm sure. I like that attitude - he tried, she's dumb, take the money. Flip. Her. Ha
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I am beginning to think this is just a massive mem joke, I've never heard any of my girlfriends say this even once to anyone if they are approached as their first sentence.
I've had to say this before, but only in bars when men don't take no for an answer. It's often said after I say "thank you, but I'm not interested." It's sad that we sometimes have to resort to using another male as an excuse to get respect when the "no thank you" should have been enough.
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If you're a woman, and someone waves money at you, you immediately assume the worst. "REALLY! Is that guy looking for a *date*?" Same thing when you're walking down the street and some construction worker calls out. That woman likely was in such a rush, with 15 things on her mind, and never even heard what the guy actually said.
I'm guessing she might have had daily unwanted interactions with men before this.
So if a man reaches his daily unwanted interactions with women he is right to treat the next woman he meets with distain? Is that how it works? See I'd rather it be that if a person treats you poorly you distance from them and not take it out other people who resemble them.
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This is completely fake. Just read the exact same post on another thread but instead of £20 it was tickets to a game. Also seen the same post with keys/phone.
Or maybe multiple guys have experience with this kind of scenario.
Load More Replies... Reminds me of a post I read, maybe here, buzzfeed, or other. I don't remember about a man saw a piece of lettuce in a young woman's hair, wanted to tell her and he said "Excuse me", and she said "I have a boyfriend.", so he just thought ok, Lettuce Head, and left her to it.. Lettuce and all. Lol.
While in some cases credible it does indicate how low we have sunk as a society.
Why not just say, "Hey, you dropped your money!" And turn away. That way she knows you're not trying something.
As someone who gets asked for my phone number daily, gets flashed at my customer service job, has people beg for money when I stop at gas stations etc it would never be my first reaction to yell this no matter how harassed I feel that day. Someone could need help freeing their baby from a locked car or I could have dropped my wallet. It never hurts you to listen for 10 seconds. At the club? Sure, cold shoulder em.
A female co-worker was having car trouble so I gave her rides to work for a few days. She made a third person remark that clearly indicated that she thought I was doing her the favor just to get a chance to hit on her. I hid both my astonishment and disgust. About eight months later, she apparently changed her mind about me. Out of the blue, she asked me to take her to a local nude beach because she "didn't know the way". I decided to be big about her prior presumption - and wrote her a very detailed map.
Recognized by internet users all over the world, the Twitter page was founded by Rob Manuel, a marketing specialist who’s also spent the last couple of decades building interactive web projects, such as the b3ta.com message board. The Mirror revealed that Rob started it all with an open invitation from his personal account, encouraging people to anonymously confess their sins via an online form. Upon receiving the first hundred of them, Manuel laid them out on the newly-created ‘Fesshole’ account.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, Rob remembered the very beginning of the project: “I was bored one afternoon and I thought it would be fun to open a google form and ask people to confess stuff anonymously. I figured at best maybe 500 people would care. Now there's nearly a million followers,” he said, jokingly adding “Please make them go away.”
YOU DISGRACE OF A HUMAN BEING YOU LET YOUR DOG TAKE THE BLAME. I HOPE BOTH SIDES OF YOUR PILLOW ARE WARM TONIGHT
Indeed, Rob’s account has already reached nearly 990k followers, who have revealed secrets ranging from shocking to odd, and everything in between. He told Bored Panda what was one of the most bizarre confessions he’s ever received. The anonymous person wrote: “About a year ago, the company I worked for switched to a four-day week. Never told my wife. Each Friday, I hire out a small office where I play Football Manager. I like to pretend it's my Manager's office. I have 'conversations' with players about disciplinary matters and contracts.”
“I quite fancy living my life like this, although I actually hate football,” the founder of ‘Fesshole’ recounted the anonymous story.
I know some very intelligent people who have no interest in correct spelling or grammar, their minds do not work linguistically. If the job involves communication, you are perhaps right to reject them. If not you may have rejected many very intelligent, capable people. We have a strange fixation on spelling and grammar as an indicator of intelligence.
In an interview with the Mirror last year, Manuel revealed what early confession became a hit, receiving 36,000 likes on the page: "My husband's dying wish was to make people think he led a double life,” an anonymous person submitted via an online form. “We had three blacked-out Landrovers follow the corsage and had actors in suits and trench coats as the funeral conductors. He was a bank manager for TSB. To this day, we haven't told anyone the truth."
Rob Manuel pointed out that observational comedy is the core of it all. “Observational comedy with the added richness of going, 'is this is real?' And we're sort of recognizing we are to some degree, imperfect," he told the Mirror.
I'm a survivor of abuse with severe PTSD - I have made a point of getting unique tattoos on my arms, legs, and torso. I love tattoos so no one questions my motivation but the the truth is that if I am ever dismembered, and only one piece of me is found, the police will have an easier time identifying my body.
Maybe prep them for that so they don’t make your GF uncomfortable or offended by accident?
Over the years, Rob’s observational comedy transcended Twitter and was presented to the general public in a book, titled The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously, comprising “Fesshole’s” greatest confessions to date. The founder of the Twitter account and the author of the book was also able to go on tours, presenting some of the submissions in front of a live audience.
“I enjoy doing the live shows the most—seeing different parts of the UK and meeting people,” he told Bored Panda. Rob added that doing audience confessions tends to get pretty funny. “We've had police people talking about letting people off crimes,” he said, providing an example. “There was also a guy who was running a WhatsApp group with 200 members for exchanging fart recordings, who turned up and told us all.”
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School and author of 'The Secret Life of Secrets', Michael Slepian, explained to Bored Panda how getting things off of your chest can benefit a person: “When we keep a secret entirely to ourselves, we leave only one venue to work through a problem: our own mind. But when we choose to be alone with something, we often don't develop the healthiest ways of thinking about it. Other people's reactions often temper overly negative thinking, and help us out of unhelpful thinking loops.”
Don't keep this secret. Your family needs to know you're on antidepressants and should be part of your support network.
“When someone reveals a secret to a person they are keeping it from, I call this confession,” Prof. Slepian pointed out. “When we reveal a secret to a third party, I call this confiding. Confession is sometimes the right thing to do, but not always. But confiding is the best of both worlds: you get to reveal a secret to someone while still keeping it secret from others.
“What is helpful about confiding is that the person often responds in a useful way, offering emotional support or practical advice. Confiding in someone anonymously can be helpful too, but only to the extent the person offers a helpful response,” he added.
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Even though this isn’t as relevant when it comes to social media accounts, such as ‘Fesshole’, sharing a secret can create a stronger bond between people, which is especially prominent among kids. “Both children and adults use secrecy as a way out of getting in trouble, but if you ask a child what a secret is, they'll say a secret is something that you only tell your best friend,” Michael Slepian suggested.
“Young children think about secrets as something to be shared, and too often adults lose sight of this. Sharing a secret with someone, something you wouldn't tell just anyone, is one of the most powerful social forces we have control over. Our confidants recognize revealing a secret as an act of intimacy.”
If reading people’s darkest—well, in some cases, not so much—secrets is something you enjoy, you’re in luck, as we have quite a collection of ‘Fesshole’s’ posts here at Bored Panda. You can find our previous editions on the Twitter page here, here, here, here, and here.
It makes you feel fancy as well since it was seen as a treat when I was growing up!
This is basically the plot of a black mirror episode, it's scary that that kind of thing is possible
hilarious. I hate golf so I am totally ok with people cheating in it. Please do not murder me. My contempt for it is due to how it is used to occupy vast parts of african land and water which underprivileged people cannot use for housing in a country with water shortages.
Hmmm, i faked not knowing english or swedish to get out of talking to some pushy guy but never to this level.
this happened to me, but it was my year 7 science teacher.... :( i really liked them
I’m a woman from oz & always assume that the majority of guys do this
Sorry, I thought you said 'friends'. Are they aware you are anything but a friend?
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What's wrong with that? Yesterday on here I was reading complaints that it's all American!
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