Just watching a program (well, passively watching) called Dear Diary.

It's about people who keep diaries and what they wrote and how it helped/influenced them etc...

Do any of you keep a diary? Is it secret? Is it read by anyone else? Is it for anyone else? Do you converse with it or formally write in it?

Somewhere I have diaries from the late 90s or maybe early 00s - I expect I'll find them horribly naive when I come to read them again in the future

I haven't kept a diary since, and they were just details of how that day went and/or what I was thinking that day. I've an awful feeling I'll look at them sometime and think 'Why didn't you realise 'X' back then?' and so on

Everyone should be forced to put thier diaries on the internet on sites much like this a diary forum perhaps where people can have thier hopes, optimism and dreams destroyed way before they end up looking innevitably back in regret.

I'd read mine right now if I had them to hand. Probably destroy them too - USB shredder FTW!

Aren't blogs a lot like online diaries?
I know blogs in themselves are widely varied but people still use them to convey their thoughts.
They are like open diaries.

Mark

That would explain why I can't write a blog then.

Tried & failed

In the future, blogs, i think, will die out - everyone will realise how boring they are. Twitter will burn out, and I think that future generations will be a lot more private and groups will be a lot less inclusive. The internet in short will become a lot more like real life.

I could see them thinning out at least, but if this supposed death and/or breakup of the mainstream media happens, even that might not be so acute.



It's hard to know with these things really, though Facebook doesn't really get much of a look in anymore, either media-wise or from the people I know who used it and do so less frequently now. They never even took to Twitter.

Is Twitter heavily dependant on 'celebrity' fascination for the average user do we think? That could be the death of it in the long run, assuming it becomes old hat with the inevitable celeb backlash.

A big factor for the net's success is anonymity that you can adjust to suit you or your needs at a given time, so I'm not really sure where the social aspect will go. But hey, everybody's telling us the future's all about globalization, and there's a lot of Chinese folk who'll eventually be desperate for a chat

I have a blog, I updated it every week last year so that I could look back and remember what I did on my industrial year to aid me in writing the report I had to write.
Since then I've posted maybe half a dozen articles. I think I think about interesting things, but I have very little to back up any statement I might make, and anything vaguely imaginative would probably require me to explain some whole odd understanding of something first...

I kept a sort of diary a number of years ago, a while before going to uni. Because I didn't have anywhere to hide it, I modified the alphabet into something quite difficult to read (though I got quite good at writing in it, the formation of the letters was better than my normal writing, plus I could write at a similar speed), it was less about reflection later (as I found it very hard to read back) and more about letting off steam without anybody having a clue what the stuff was about.

I started a "day book" when I was working from home. The idea was to write up phone conversations, jot down ideas and so on. It's morphed into more of a work-related diary which I use to empty my spleen occasionally.

So, yes, I keep a journal, but it's not a daily one.

I use Twitter, but that’s different - it’s short, more public and I get responses from people who follow me.

As for writing in a book every day, keeping a blog etc., the answer is no. I don’t think anyone would want to read my thoughts in such detail, and it would be self-indulgent and narcissistic of me to think that they would. I don’t keep a written diary either. It’s just not in my nature to do such things.

Never kept a diary in my life. Totally pointless.

Yeah, my life is too boring to bother writing down as well