Do you still use diary to keep your secrets?

I totally agree to ya, there are many people out there who use different names as their pen names to open up a new blog that talks about themselves. There are also peeps tho, who are very vocal and can really say it out loud by blogging.

I am one of the outdated who still keep a diary. I started writing in it in 1998 and I still write in it at least 3 times a week. I am also writing a book and am 75% done with it. I have used a lot of things from my diary. So as you see a diary can be helpful. It's also interesting to look back and see what happened and how you dealt with life at certain times during your lifetime. It may help you deal with the same situations in a better way the second time around.

I agree with you that I seldom write diary anymore, though it's a really nice experience, especially when I read back the diary we wrote when we were young, we always find something new or funny. Nowadays I usually write in blog, make it private to myself only. I prefer this way as I can always read what I've written anywhere I go. Also, I feel lazy to use hand to write nowadays. But I do write down my feelings or thoughts sometimes when I am outside without having access to Internet or computer.

I stopped writing my diary last year. I used to express my feelings regularly, but I rather typed it, not wrote it in a book. In my opininion blog as an online diary cannot replace the function of the traditional diary. Most people write about their feelings and secrets in diary, and those are not the things you want to publish online. Personal matters are best when being kept as they are.

Online blogging may be convenient in pouring out emotions. You do not have to worry about erasures plus your anonymity is preserved (unless of course a genius hacker penetrates your site). But thats' what I kind of don't like about using blogs as a diary. The rawness of emotions is gone. You do not get to see the erasures that could mean that a person chooses more subtle or worse words just to express his/her emotions as he/she feels it. The diary is your own. No worries of virus or hackers. I actually use a diary of my own.

yes ,my friend ,I agree with you, now I usually keep a diary online ,and I less write on paper , but we can not abandon it ,because this our tradition.

i am sure there are many people out there that still keep a diary of their secrets. many people dont want to blog their secrets on the internet. i just keep a journal of events. and it is not daily. just whenever something interesting happens.

Yes, I kept a diary for all my daily activities, but my secrets are written in different notes which I call my personal journal. Everything I dreamed and things that frustrate me are written there but I never used different names, i used real names. I am also blogging but it is ridiculous to write every secret I have in blogs, i just wrote and posted my frustrations and longings but no the detailed things, blogs can be seen and read worldwide and it is still nice to have privacy by not telling all the secrets.

diary is not outdated for me. for me my diary is still my favourite possession and the most secret thing. i write online more than in my diary but things that my diary contain are special and i don't share them with anyone. my diary contains my deepest thoughts and emotions which are only mine, my diary is my best friend and i am possessive about it.

I think blogging created a trust among online society. In doing that people's secrets no longer seem as important. I have read some strange bloggs, I wish the author had kept to himself! I have a journal for a years, now. I really don't keep secrets in it either. I use it as an outlet for brainstorming. I do have a secret about what happened to the journals I lost in the past though... I think the ideas in there were published?

I used to own one during my pre-puberty years, but I realized that it was risky for keeping one since somebody else may find it and read my secrets. So I opted to stop writing. :P I do, however, keep some sort of journal. But I don't update it regularly. It mostly contain random thoughts and ramblings that I don't really mind other people seeing. I have a web blog (a blog, if you prefer calling it that) that I used to update regularly. But since I'm too busy with college life, I have let my blog stagnate for some time now. :P I would have to disagree with you on that one since I prefer having to write in my personal diary/journal seeing the fact that I find it more convenient than updating my blogsite. I mean, there's no need for a laptop/desktop and an internet connection to add an entry since a pen and a good quality notebook would suffice. Also, I find that writing in my diary is far more "intimate" as opposed to blogging. However, I don't get to have, like say, critiques and reactions concerning my entries that I only get to receive when I post my entries online through a blogsite (unless I do show my diary to everyone :P).

Hi, micahbrul! I suppose I'm one of the last dying few who still keeps an actual diary. I've kept one since I was about twelve years old. I've never had an online blog. I don't know, I'm just very private about some areas in my life and would rather not have total strangers read my deepest personal thoughts and feelings.