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I don't think that's why people don't keep private diaries. I would rather guess that they have no interesting thoughts. Technology actually made it easier to
by Artoemius 11y ago
I don't think that's why people don't keep private diaries. I would rather guess that they have no interesting thoughts.
Technology actually made it easier to keep a diary that's truly private (I use a simple rar archive with a password). When I was a teenager without a PC, I had a paper diary, which always made me worry about my parents finding it.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMaybe it's also about difference of form? I can't for life keep writing a normal journal for more than a week, but I generate tons of notes about ideas, all in text files scattered around a synced folder. Is that "journaling" too?
- gglitch 11y agoI've found keeping a diary to be more difficult and more rewarding than it might popularly be thought to be. There are different approaches, from logs of events to records of thoughts/feelings, with varying levels of detail, and there are inspiring published diaries of all stripes to take as an example. I completely agree with the author about the latent connections between diarizing, privacy, self-awareness, awareness of one's public image, and the internet era. I think it'd be a great idea if diaries were a standard unit in secondary lit classwork.