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December 02, 2004
About SorryEverybody.com
So I visited the site a couple of days ago, and I do have to say that the site impacted me. The biggest part was just seeing the handwritten notes, at this point it is definitely novel to take a picture of a message that you created. It is very powerful to see a handwritten message attached to a very sad face of an actual person. With this overall commentary, I have two specific points that I wanted to bring up. Though it was a moving experience and I did spend sometime on the site, I wonder how many posters actually feel relieved that they were able to upload something. Like I think it would be interesting to see how bad the people feel after they posted their image. Do they not feel sorry anymore? After posting do they feel the same as if someone accepted their apology, or as someone that offered an apology but was never given a response? I think that might make for an interesting study. The only other thing I wanted to point out came from this picture...
It seems as if within all of the apologies about the election, it occurred to me that this person might have been saying sorry to a specific person? It almost seems that way, and as I started thinking about it it seems as a novel way to not only apologize to the world, but apologize to a significant other for something wrong that they may have done. Almost as if you're putting some picture or an apology on one of those jumbotrons. I think this type of picture & message apology could evolve into a medium of expression for apologies to loved ones, and I'll be interested to see its effectiveness and how other people perceive these types of public displays of forgiveness.
Posted by at December 2, 2004 06:37 PM
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