Facebook and Twitter. And when we do it, we sometimes say things that we shouldn't. Especially late at night when we're not necessarily thinking clearly. And no, I'm not just speaking in the royal "we" here. You know who you are.
And now there's a site for the best things that we all shouldn't have said. It's called TextsFromLastNight, it lets anyone submit their or their friends' most overly memorable texts. Then it displays a stream of the most recent ones, as apparently chosen by the site's two anonymous co-founders. Just email said prose to text@textsfromlastnight.com or type it out in the a message box on the site and hit "send." Just make sure to include the area code of the texter ahead of the message to give it a little context (besides that info, messages are kept anonymous).
Of course, there's also the question of how the site will make money -- maybe ads for smartphones?
Most of the content isn't suitable for a dignified site like this one, so I'll leave it to interested readers to click through (except for the few excerpts you see here).
Besides entertainment, perhaps there's also something bigger going on. With Facebook, when you share something that you regret -- like party pictures -- just your (usually real) friends on the site see them. On Twitter, assuming you're like most people and you have your tweets publicly accessible, you're already sharing with the whole world (and unless you're anonymous in the first place, you're already being held responsible).
But text messaging is usually one-to-one or between tight-knit groups. It's a whole world of communication that's much bigger than most web services, that no one has had a good window into. This site, only launched in February and just relaunched last week, brings that world to life in a way that I haven't seen before.
[Found via @tornadoliese]