Not only did Netizen Gary Ng post some 33 sex videos of himself online, he had also confessed to having sex with his first cousin.

The Netizen, already the target of angry Netizens over his sex video scandal, described the incident with his first cousin that occurred during the Chinese New Year holiday season two years ago.

According to Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao, Gary said that he was visiting his grandmother then. His first cousin was living with the grandmother at that time.

Gary said in an online post that he caught the cousin surfing porn site, and upon questioning, learned that his cousin's boyfriend had 'weak' skills in bed and was unable to sexually satisfy her.

Hearing that, Gary showed his cousin sex videos of him bedding various women, then got her to have sex with him after watching the videos together.

It seems that when people log on to the Internet, they become less shy about confessing their deepest and darkest secrets.

Online posts and comments, it seems, involve such a degree of daring that it makes the lives of any ordinary Joe look extremely boring.

While Gary Ng might be someone's screen name, posting confessions or declarations of the less tasteful kind might still result in other Netizens flaming you. Flaming is the act of sending angry comments or replies to a post or comment on the Internet.

Catering to a need for anonymous confessions, a number of sites have popped up. These sites offer uses the ability to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets while not requiring them to long in, or even use a screen name.

Sites such as Group Hug focus on sympathy. Users can choose to give posts that they sympathise with a virtual 'hug'. Posts on sites like these also tend to be more of the lonely hearts club kind.

An example of a typical post on Group Hug would go something like, "I wish something had would happen to me - so that I can get some love and attention."

Other sites, however, are places for people to "'ess up on their deepest and darkest sins they can otherwise tell no one else in real life. One such place is Just Fess.

Posts on sites like these contain more nasty messages. One writer said, "I think Pittsburgh residents are the stupidest in the land. Even though I was born, raised and will probably die here."

Another post simply declared, "Sometimes, I hate my wife."

Even on Facebook, applications allowing users to confess anonymously are readily available. The social networking has some 32 applications giving users the option to do so.

One such application, Confess Your Friends, allows users to talk about what they think of their friends, and see what others think of them, all hidden behind a curtain of anonymity.

While online confessions might look untraceable, sites can still log the IP address of visitors. Should the messages posted warrant the attention of the authorities, they can still be tracked to the poster.

People who make threats, or inappropriate comments, such as posting racist sentiments online can face prosecution.