{"id":12647,"date":"2014-12-13T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12647"},"modified":"2023-08-25T02:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T07:21:41","slug":"confessional-in-the-palm-of-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/confessional-in-the-palm-of-your-hand","title":{"rendered":"Confessional in the Palm of Your Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/contributor\/rachel-metz\/\">Rachel Metz<\/a> \u2014 MIT Technology Review<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">\u201cI want to quit Google,\u201d the message on my iPhone read. \u201cIt\u2019s boring here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Posted by an anonymous user in San Francisco to the confessional app <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secret.ly\" target=\"0\">Secret<\/a>, the message quickly gained attention; after four days, it had received 78 comments, ranging from \u201cjust means you\u2019re not on the right project\u201d to \u201cI quit Google, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.\u201d At times, the original poster chimed in, saying things like: \u201cI\u2019ve been there a long time. Many jobs. The company no longer values initiative, and promotion is very slow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of us are addicted to sharing status updates on Facebook, photos on Instagram, and thoughts on Twitter. But real, raw honesty is tricky online. It\u2019s hard to say what you really think when your true identity is attached, especially if your post could get you in trouble, either now or years down the line. That bored Googler on Secret wouldn\u2019t be likely to voice those thoughts online under his or her real name\u2014even if doing so could be therapeutic or even lead to other job options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/review\/531211\/confessional-in-the-palm-of-your-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Metz \u2014 MIT Technology Review \u201cI want to quit Google,\u201d the message on my iPhone read. \u201cIt\u2019s boring here.\u201d Posted by an anonymous user in San Francisco to the confessional app Secret, the message quickly gained attention; after four days, it had received 78 comments, ranging from \u201cjust means you\u2019re not on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170454,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions\/170454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}