People Are Telling Their Darkest Secrets To This Twitter Account, And Here Are 50 Of Their Juiciest Confessions (New Answers)
There's a Twitter account (that can now also be found on Facebook) which offers people the chance to anonymously reveal their secrets, and with 535K followers, it has become a viral online sensation.
Titled Fesshole, the account is the brainchild of Rob Manuel. Those of you that are well-versed in internet culture might know him from creating 'B3ta', a meme design website that famously sued Coca-Cola after they ripped off one of its viral animations for a TV ad.
Anyway, the "sins" on Fesshole range from the clumsily awkward (messing up a handshake) to the hilariously outrageous (hiring someone because they share your love for pro-wrestling), and, I guess, their popularity shows that in the age of social detachment, a little gossip can go a long way.
Continue scrolling to check out Fesshole's latest content, and don't miss out on the chat we had about secrets with Dr. Michael Slepian, the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, spread out in between the pictures.
However, if you go through the entire thing and your curiosity wants more, fire up our earlier publication on Fesshole.
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I see nothing wrong with this at all. They wouldn't take care of her give her to someone that can and will
To begin with, Dr. Slepian said when we keep a secret, we often mean to protect something. "Perhaps we believe that it protects our reputation, or our relationship with someone. And yet, our secrets tend to harm our well-being, and can harm our relationships too," the author of The Secret Life of Secrets: How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well-Being, Relationships, and Who We Are told Bored Panda.
"When we choose to be alone with something, especially something important, we tend not to develop the healthiest way of thinking about it. It often takes another person to get the help that we need. Even a short conversation with a trusted person can offer so much. Emotional support and fresh perspectives can easily be offered by your confidant, but are hard to find on your own. This is why we often want to bring others in. We know that another person can prove helpful, and that having a conversation about the secret would be a healthy thing to do. To have a secret from everyone is to be alone with that thing, and we don't like to be alone. Your desire for help and social connection is in battle with your fear of how others will respond. When we let fear win, we hold the secret tight."
I had a 6 year old foster kid who was obsessed with wanting glasses like her older sister. Alas, she didn’t need them. :/ While her older sister walked around trying on various frames for her new glasses, she was trying to be supportive. I couldn’t bare to see her disappointed, so I told her to pick out whatever frames she also wanted. She was over-the-moon elated! We bought her “glasses” as-is without a prescription… just a clear lens. They were a hideous pink cat eye style. She wore them EVERYWHERE! And anytime she would get complimented on them, she’d tally up those compliments, “See? Another compliment!” It was ridiculously cute! :)
I always want to ask Alexa to end the simulation {like the Matrix} but don't. I'm afraid if it does life might be worst then it is.
I'm not gonna lie, every time I've watched The Matrix, I have to admit to myself that I would 100% be the guy trying to get back IN to the simulation!! LOL!
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You too!?!? My husband thinks I’m crazy to talk to a machine like that, but I think eventually AI will understand tone of voice, and will respond more positively to politeness and kindness than to barked orders. And yeah, since we’ve already seen nightmare scenarios play out, especially in the past 5-6 years, I don’t pooh-pooh the idea of an eventual AI takeover. So I want to be one of the people all my sentient machines strongly advocate for exemption to enslavement because I was always so nice and kind to them, and didn’t treat them as slaves.
I DO IT TOO. My boyfriend thinks I'm a bit daft XD But I was raised to be polite, and since Alexa is polite to ME (and she speaks to me as if she were human), I feel it's only appropriate to be polite to her :) I thank her at least once a day, and sometimes I will also just randomly say, "Alexa.... I appreciate you." If you look at my Alexa Search/Ask history on my Alexa App.... there's a lot of "Alexa, thank you" XD So, you're not alone <3
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Hey, most advanced cultures take VERY good care of their pets these days... my cats and dog eat better than I do most days :p and they get regular checkups when I don't even have a GP for myself at the moment XD So, I wouldn't be too upset being a pet! ;)
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I say thank you too, but that’s just cause he’s helpful. Being spared enslavement is just a happy coincidence.
False. You will be enslaved first because you acknowledged their sentience.
THIS!!! I am always polite to Madam A - how we refer to her within hearing shot, so as not to wake her - My son use to be bossy to her. I always correct him and tell him to be polite. Hey- I am not taking any chances!!
I know we're being tracked every time we use our devices, but bringing techno-spies into the home? Nah, that's not convenience. That's data storage for later use.
I say "thank you" and "please" to Alexa all the time. Lately it's been responding to "thank you" with misc things like the domestication of dogs, or a spinach lasagna recipe, or the weather, or the art museum, ..... or whatever. We must have filled an algorithm with music selections, destination look up, retail searches, etc. My husband and I usually play along and ask it silly questions. You could create a whole game around it.
OMG, I'm not the only one!!!!!! "Hey Google, play the new Wknd song for me please. Thank you Google."
Now I am going to have to start saying "thank you" to the self checkout.
I always say please and thank you to Alexa when I want her to play my book. But I also apologize to inanimate objects when I run into them, so I'm not sure what to do with this info
I'm the most polite I've ever been to our Google home for this exact reason.
And Alexa will respond when you thank her. That is something I like.
I say thank you to all AI, just because I'm in the habit of saying it mindlessly anyway.
me too - and to the lady in my phone giving me directions. I'm waiting for the day it says "you're welcome"
At first I did it naturally, and in hopes that it would promote good manners in our kids but when it's noisy I end up shouting at the poor girl (Alexa that is)... but I try to remind myself that she is doing the best she can.
ROTFL — I do exactly the same thing! My husband and son tease me about it… but when Skynet takes over, guess who'll have the last laugh? BWAHAHAHAHAAA!!! :-)
Said ,"Thank you," to her one morning & she sang, in a very cheerful voice, "You're very, very, very, very welcome!"Thank goodness I didn't have a gun.
It is only polite. Best earliest book about this is the Moon is a Harsh Mistress by R A Heinlein
I do as well as it's only polite. Have you read the Moon is a Harsh Mistress? First book I know of dealing with sentient computer...
Honestly I think devices shouldn't work unless you say please and thank you, because people get used to be being brash and then just think they can treat humans like mindless devices. Fake it till you make it.
The robots will come for me first. I tell Alexa to shut up all the time. My wife is super nice to her and will be spared.
I do this! My mum can be really mean and if Alexa gets something wrong mum swears at her, so I apologise
I DO THE SAME THING!! I say please too. I hope she will tell the other AI that I was always nice to her.
I say thank you to my subconscious whenever an answer pops into my head for something I forgot I was thinking about. Just because what if you have a completely separate person living in your head that has no control but is stuck as a passenger. Something had to be putting in the effort to look up that answer.
I always thank my car for letting me know I’ve left the lights on. I don’t want her to feel unappreciated and decide to not let me know one day.
The call center guy on the other end pretending to be your AI appreciates this
With Edy Moulton-Tetlock, a doctoral student in management studying organizational behavior, Dr. Slepian asked more than 800 online participants to describe their personal secrets, using his list of 38 common categories of secrets as their guide.
The participants described more than 10,000 secrets, including both those they had shared with someone ("confided secrets") and the ones they had kept all to themselves ("total secrets").
The data revealed that confiding a secret predicted improved well-being. That's because the participant received social support and because the act of revealing the secret seemed to minimize the amount of time the person spent thinking about it.
Dr. Slepian's research suggests that someone who is more secretive tends to be less extraverted and less emotionally stable, but more conscientious.
However, we also need to be aware of what it means to be "unloaded" on.
"When another person confides in us, this can be a boon but also a burden. When someone trusts us to the point of revealing a secret, we understand this is an act of intimacy, and often feel closer to the person as a result."
And yet, Dr. Slepian explained that if the secret is something we find troubling or surprising, we might find our thoughts returning to it again and again.
"The secret can weigh on our mind. And if the secret implicates someone you know, then you'll have to keep the secret from them, which will bring its own burden," he added.
While Dr. Slepian thinks it's possible for people to live like an open book, sharing everything with the world, he wouldn't advise it.
"There is a class of secrets that most everyone agrees is okay to keep. People often call these 'white lies,'" he clarified. "If you are just arriving at the party, and your friend asks you how their outfit looks, but it is too late to change, then most people agree that saying something positive is the kinder response ('You look great!'). If the truth needlessly hurts someone's feelings, holding back is often the more compassionate choice."
I don't like the taste of beer, wine or spirits, I'm more than happy with a soft drink or juice. I've done it to stop people asking "but whyyyyyyy?" I don't drink and "just try this one".
There's no exact formula that tells Rob Manuel which submissions he needs to feature on Fesshole. His choices are based on simply going through the list and reading them. Everything depends on his judgment of what he thinks is funny or interesting. So if you send Rob something and it doesn't appear on the account, don't sweat it. There are other online "priests" you can share your secrets with. Like the subreddit r/confessions.
This is why I have a Furbo camera… so I can talk to my animals. My cat is too smart! When he wants my attention… he triggers the camera, so I’ll check on him and have a little chat with him. :)
My brother-in-law, who is a right know it all, fitted his fridge freezer into his kitchen work tops. For years my sister-in-law complained nothing was ever cold and the freezer took an eternity to do basic freezing......he'd left the Styrofoam encasing the whole of the back.
Well you told him. It on him should of listened sometimes that is what it takes and you can have a laugh about it
Shame on you! Think of all the jobs you're stealing from people with REAL interpretive dance degrees! :)
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Some of these were sweet, but most are either sad or horrible (or both): Stealing! Yaaaaaaay!!!
While I understand the urge, I just can’t get behind the theft and destruction of personal property some of these blithely retell.
My SO accidentally tripped me when I was 7 months pregnant. It was totally an accident and I said I was fine. My water broke and the baby died. They think these two events were unrelated. I understand there were a series of events that caused her death and not just this, but they would most certainly blame themselves. I never even told our doctor that I know why my water broke.
I have a confession. When I was 22 I got my first full time design job with a marketing company. Shortly after I was hired, I discovered that the guy who sat at my computer before me (and no longer worked there) had left himself signed in to his ebay account. Because I was a very dumb young adult, I thought it would be funny to order something ridiculous and have it sent to his house. I ordered a blow up doll. Ha ha now at 39 it makes me chuckle but I do feel a little bad.
Most of the stories are by one guy, so I guess, his life is so boring he fantasies about the life of 100 others summed up in his imaginary life.
Sorry the guy is not one person, my fingers was faster than my head.
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I talk to my grandmother sometimes. I tell her about work and life. She died in 2003. I also still sleep with a stuffed animal. I am thirty six years old.
None of these are juicy. “My biggest secret is I love my dog” ….great.
Some of these were sweet, but most are either sad or horrible (or both): Stealing! Yaaaaaaay!!!
While I understand the urge, I just can’t get behind the theft and destruction of personal property some of these blithely retell.
My SO accidentally tripped me when I was 7 months pregnant. It was totally an accident and I said I was fine. My water broke and the baby died. They think these two events were unrelated. I understand there were a series of events that caused her death and not just this, but they would most certainly blame themselves. I never even told our doctor that I know why my water broke.
I have a confession. When I was 22 I got my first full time design job with a marketing company. Shortly after I was hired, I discovered that the guy who sat at my computer before me (and no longer worked there) had left himself signed in to his ebay account. Because I was a very dumb young adult, I thought it would be funny to order something ridiculous and have it sent to his house. I ordered a blow up doll. Ha ha now at 39 it makes me chuckle but I do feel a little bad.
Most of the stories are by one guy, so I guess, his life is so boring he fantasies about the life of 100 others summed up in his imaginary life.
Sorry the guy is not one person, my fingers was faster than my head.
Load More Replies... I talk to my grandmother sometimes. I tell her about work and life. She died in 2003. I also still sleep with a stuffed animal. I am thirty six years old.
None of these are juicy. “My biggest secret is I love my dog” ….great.
