Interesting. I came up with precisely this during a "social app for the masses" thought experiment. Inspirations were the positives I've observed with anonymous

Interesting. I came up with precisely this during a "social app for the masses" thought experiment. Inspirations were the positives I've observed with anonymous commenting systems and the "secrets" pages I think I first saw in the local City Paper. Follow-up thoughts were: - What percentage of users would simply take it as an opportunity to be anonymously nasty to each other? - In larger sharing circles, would users take to using "tripcode" type images or signatures in their shares to actually fight anonymity. - How do you actually monetize such a service? As a deeper source of sentiment? A window into the things people want/think, but won't demonstrate publicly? - If sharing user produced text, how anonymous could it actually be? Speech patterns, capitalization, punctuation and whatnot is all very telling. It would be an interesting application of NLP to anonymize those tidbits without changing their meaning.