Confession Craze

Article 1a (towards the end) reiterates the same point in an earlier post on cyber-warfare about how classified info that impacts the security of a nation should be denied access to the public.
The confession chamber syndrome in both articles operates on the idea of anonymity that allows for the therapeutic function of social media to come through -- where the real world is not conducive for the airing of certain views and feelings, the privacy and anonymity afforded by social media provide the much-needed outlet for them, hence therapeutic, so that you dont have to keep them all bottled inside you. Letting them out also makes u realise that there are others like you out there, hence enabling the forming of a kindred spirit, or the fostering of a sense of shared experience and solidarity, from which one can draw emotional support whilst going through a gruelling ordeal (NS?).
Note that the articles also raise the point that the authenticity of views can be questionable.

article 1a

article 1b