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A communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practi
by eegilbert 15y ago
A communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practice for people (mostly women) to keep short accounts of daily life in their journals. Every six months, they swapped the diaries with their friends and family. The Twitter of the 18th century. Old is new again.
- liu3hao 15y agoHmm.. Swapping diaries, that sounds like an idea we could add in!
- ddw 15y agoA friend of mine found once such book from 1932. It's pretty amazing and she has fittingly been posting some of it on Tumblr: http://someoldbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/diary http://someoldbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/diary A lot of walking down the street!