As I read other posts, I begin to think that quite a few poeple are regular users and are using you not as an asnwer wall, but more as a psychologist.

Curious what you think about it. Isn’t it wrong to share deep personal infomation online? Some of the posts are so personal… Altho it is anonymous, it can still be a way for an obsessed freak to track someone down and expose everything writen here or heven worse…

I answer all questions that are respectful of other people and groups and individual privacy, and aren’t derogatory or hurtful. I agree that people may want to limit the amount of personal information available; that’s as true here as on any site or social media account. I’m not a psychologist, that’s true. Anyone who might welcome counseling, I refer to BC’s counseling services: bit.ly/BC-counseling.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.