So, what are the benefits of keeping a diary online as opposed to in the privacy of your apartment or home?  One might suggest that part of the appeal stems from the fact that so many people spend a good portion of time on the Internet anyway.  After all, who wants to leave their computer, walk across the room to get a piece of paper and write?  Writing stuff down is so overrated!

 Before you know it, people are going to forget how to write anything by hand.  All they’ll be able to recite to you is how your hands are set up on the keyboard:  ”a, s, d, f, j, k, l, ;, spacebar”.  Just kidding, I hope.  With all these online journals and blogs, perhaps we should ask ourselves, “Is the Internet negatively affecting how I communicate?”  For example, every Christmas, I used to write out (by hand) thank-you cards to all of my relatives.  When I first went away to college, this was also how I communicated: by writing letters, going to the post office and mailing them.  However, in recent years, I’ll send a “thank-you email” (even though I still follow that up with a hand-written thank you).  The same thing goes for letters to friends.  It’s simply more convenient to take five minutes to write an email because you know it’s going to get to that other person in like 5 seconds as opposed to five days.  So, maybe this is the same thinking with online journals and diaries.  It’s a matter of convenience.  You don’t have to worry about toting a book around containing personal information.  Instead, you can type your thoughts and come back to them later.  After all, you’ll probably be back at a computer in no time anyway!

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