Blogging as a Diary or Journal

Posted by Nicole Allard Feb 10, 2007

Blogging your life on an online journal can be very motivational, inspiring and a great way to vent. Most of us had journals or diaries as children so we could have our own private place to write down our secrets, thoughts, events, and feelings. However, if you want your blog online to stay private make sure you fix the settings of your blog to private. You can still keep your thoughts, feelings and secrets all to yourself.

However, if you want to blog about your life and share it with others all over the world, you can do that too. Just be a little careful about what you write. One time, I had been asked to write in one of my blogs 5 things that someone reading my blog might not know about me. I thought, all right, that sounds cool. So, I wrote 5 things people may not know about me. One of those things was that my then fiance and I were going to elope on New Year's Day 2007. Well, my sister had found my post and decided to tell our whole family! It was a secret, hence the word "elope". So, just remember, if you do not want anyone to know, you might not want to blog it!

Anyway, a great place to start a blog journal online is LiveJournal, where there is a strong community and nearly everyone blogs about their thought, feelings, lives, and events. LiveJournal can be a great place to begin your online journal.

Just don't announce that you are going to elope. ; ) Even though everyone knew, we are happily married now. = )

Happy Blogging!

Nicky