Where can I share my thoughts online anonymously?

How about an anonymous blog?

Any specific blogging sites you recommend?

Gather.com

thanks ill check it out

Do you just want to express the thoughts, or do you want to see others’ comments in response? Putting your words out there is pretty easy, but getting thoughtful feedback might be another matter.

The Internet is kind of like the inverse of a large theatre: instead of a stage with thousands of seats for the audience, we have one seat in front of thousands of stages, all competing for the spotlight. You may not receive the attention you want, and the attention you do get may be thoughtless or unkind.

Have you thought about writing in a private journal or notebook, or even just in a file that you keep safe (under a password) on your own computer?

PostSecret

Jyver.com allows you to post polls and threads anonymously. You don’t even have to register.

@Jeruba I don’t want it to be private simply for the fact that its comforting to know that someone is reading. I don’t expect comments nor do I need them- i’m not looking for advice of any type really, but if people feel so inclined to comment that is fine…it is what it is.

@dappled_leaves some of that stuff is really upsetting. example

Blogger is good, so is WordPress.. both are free. Tumblr is good, but it’s easy to get lost in the masses there.

@abysmalbeauty, perhaps what you need is a pen pal.

Writing isn’t wasted just because it doesn’t have a wide audience. Sometimes a single friend is the best possible audience. Sometimes you’re your own best reader. Sometimes just the writing of it is all that matters.

Uh, here?

@MissAnthrope Yeah, blog, nobody knows each other, and you can post anything you want to express

@zen kinda missed that obvious opportunity lol

The only thing is that you are limited to the format here. You could open a facebook account – and even link the two – and write there to your heart’s content anonymously. I am on facebook as zen – no photos – no nothing.

Talking from personal experience, writing stuff down is a fantastic way of processing stuff and for getting it off your chest, but have you REALLY asked yourself why you feel you want other people to read it? I feel I can relate to the idea of wanting to be heard, but I have found that the most effective thing I have ever done to deal with situations is to write daily in a journal that I share with no-one. If you want feedback, then for sure get yourself blogging or whatever, but if it’s simply to get stuff out, I would highly recommend keeping a journal. The difference with writing in a journal is that, although initially you may feel that you wish there was someone else to read it, over time (and probably a relatively short period of time for that matter) the chances are that you will feel much stronger within yourself than if you felt you had an ‘audience’, because you will have become entirely self-sufficient. Because there will really be no-one to hide from (which I believe may feel a bit different if you’re publishing stuff online) the chances are that you may uncover many intriguing things about yourself, and you will most likely find clear answers to any questions or doubts that you may have about yourself. If you want to write online, of course go ahead and do that, but just be aware that the psychology of it may work slightly differently, and that there’s a chance you may gain more from the experience by doing it another way. And trust me, I talk from experience when I say that the world becomes a much easier, more beautiful place to be when we become aware that we are truly listening to ourselves!

@fjl82 A short answer to your question is that I relate it to talking to someone without that someone feeling obligated to provide me with a solution which generally is what happens now-a-days when I share whats on my mind with someone.

No one really listens just for the sake of listening from what I’ve experienced.

@abysmalbeauty that is exactly what happens on the internet, too. You only have to look around the fluther archives… everyone has a “solution” to the OP’s problem, and sometimes they don’t deal well with having their suggestions be ignored (I would guess because of the anonymity factor). Other, non-Q&A fora are pretty much the same. PostSecret is good in this way, because there’s no reciprocation. You just put your story out into the world and you know that people will read it.