Before the days of MySpace, people used to actually write down their private thoughts, lol. I kept a diary from the age of 14 until 20. It's fun, and a little sad, to read it today.

Yes, I've been keeping a journal in some shape or form since I was 9 (1994). It's interesting to see how my handwriting has evolved over the years. The current one I have, I've been writing in it since November 2002... in October 2003, I went the LiveJournal route and haven't written much in it since then. Plus, I don't really like the actual journal itself. I like my journals to have thick, stiff pages with semi-wide lines (not college-ruled) so that I can use whatever pen I have on hand, instead of ballpoint pens... these make my hand hurt if I have to write with them for a long time. I have maybe 55-60 pages (out of 198 pages) left in the current journal, so I should get crackin' on that. I do take a notebook or whatever with me on my travels so I can write about what happened. I did that in London, Washington DC, New York City...

For a good while when I was 12/13, I had a Word document journal... I had a lot of stuff typed up on there, and my mom deleted it permanently by accident when I was about 13. OMG...I was sooooooooooo upset. I have nothing from that time... Blah. :(

When I'm not blogging (which is almost never, because I blog every day, lol), I write in my paper journal.

Nope, Iv'e never had a diary. I do have a journal that I write in once in awhile, but I'm way too A.D.D. to focus on writing in a diary everyday.

When I got my very first computer I kept a journal for a while, but I never got much out of it. It was a pretty depressing read too.

:lol:

I've kept a diary for a long time, and I still do, even though I have a LiveJournal too.

Yep! I've kept one since fifth grade. I have a total of thirteen filled and I'm writing in one right now. Journal-writing is definitely something I want to do for the rest of my life.

I don't use my Xanga or LiveJournal much anymore.

I mainly use Myspace, but i write lyrics and poems in journals.

When I was 12 I got my first Diary and I wrote in one up until I was 16. And then one day my Mom took it upon herself to read it and she read some of the things that my boyfriend (now my husband) and I were doing. After that I stop writing in one, Until I started college and then I started back and now I write in my journal every night before I go to bed.

i have a physical abstract journal that no one would understand
livejournal for sharing my private life with certain people
myspace blog for people at school to read when i need to get feelings or whatever out (which has about a million subscribers, hah)

I've heard it's therapeutic, but have never had that substantiated. I haven't kept a journal, because I seldom stick with anything consistently, except for example being a member of SO, which I've stuck with for almost seven months already, and glad that I have!

Yes. I've been writing in it since 3rd grade and I'm 17 now. It's not a daily thing so I only have 1 and a half filled, but I get down what I need to get down.

I keep my thoughts in a small note pad, that is ideal for something like that. I also have a LiveJournal that I update semi-regularly. I like reflecting back on former moments.

i'm too lazy/don't have time to sit and write things down anymore,
so i do have a greatestjournal.. but i hardly update because i don't have time.
but everyday is the same,
so i have nothing to remember

I started keeping a journal when I was pregnant with my son. I have written in it every day since then. I start a new one every year on my sons birthday and finish it the day before.....It is something i plan to give him on his 18th birthday....

No. On LJ/MySpace, no one cares about my stupid life. On paper, I don't care. All I'd do is complain.

No. On LJ/MySpace, no one cares about my stupid life. On paper, I don't care. All I'd do is complain.
Oh, so that's why I hardly see you posting anymore on LJ. I, for one, enjoy reading people's happenings, feelings, stories, memorablilia, and even other pieces of writing on LJ. So, write more, girl! ;)

I have always loved to write since I was in elementary school. I am more so a thinker, dreamer, and ponderer in my head and in writing much more so than I am verbally. I have just always been that way.

I have a couple of saved journals since as far back as high school. I lost so many of my elementary and middle school memorabilia after a storage shed disaster back in 1997. :( But I did come across a high school journal I did for one of my writing classes just the other day (Sunday). I was happy! I am going to spend some time and re-read it. I also found another journal I have that I wrote during the Flowers/Cruel Summer album/promo releases in early to mid-1998 for Ace of Base.

I have also jotted down notes/journal entries for vacations, expressive feelings over crushes and other important things in my life or things I just feel like letting loose on paper.

Plus, I also have a LiveJournal account where I type up feelings and share with others. I have a number of private entries, but most of them since the start of 2006 have been friends-only entries.

So, yes, I have two types of journals/diaries. I keep joking within myself that one day I would have such an obscure and abnormal life that would become a very entertaining movie made one day. :lol:

I used to keep a diary when I was in 5th grade, but I grew out of it and left it in the woods for someone in the future to find :) I had a really boring life anyway.

Now I just keep an online journal and document my boring life there.

No. On LJ/MySpace, no one cares about my stupid life. On paper, I don't care. All I'd do is complain.
Me too forget about the diary.:mad:

As part of a class during my senior year of high school we had to keep a journal for the entire year. We had to write in it a little bit at the start of each class period. Some of the entries I made were concerning my hopes and dreams concerning the future, fears about the sort of future that mankind may face. I was certain that we were going to live in a future like in some Philip Dick novel (especially Blade Runnner). A lot of times I just wrote about rock music and pretty girls I saw in the hallway. :lol: I was a pretty deep kid, huh? :lol:

As part of a english course during senior year, we had to work in groups of three on a creative project. I ended up writing lyrics for a song. Though I worked with two other people on this, 90% of this was written by me. So here is "Lost In Time" written by yours truly at 17 years of age.

(verse one)
"Everyone around me is complaining
Saying how life is unfair
I wonder if I believe them
I don't know if I really care
We've all got so many problems
That build up and stand in our way (yeah, this line was taken from the Van Halen song "Right Now")
We tend to do things without thinking
And we take it day by day

There are so many people
All of them so different
All so many people
No one considered equal
People are so strange
Looking out for their own gain

(chorus)
We are all lost in time
Struggling day by day
Living in the dark
With no real place to stay
Constently putting our sanity on the line (taken from another Van Halen song..."Love Walks In")
We are all lost in time

(verse two)
Living in a world of wonders
Trying to learn the truth
Guided by our strangth
Any only ours in true

All the crazy people
Will they ever learn
They want no one to judge them
Not knowing what is their concern
Sitting there complaining about his way of life
He's hiding from the complaining
Would life sound better than the truth

(repeat chorus)

(verse three)
All so many people
Crying out for help
I act with so much wisdom
If only I could help myself
I make so many people angry
All because I am scared
Scared to face the facts
And scared to face the pain

From year to year
Decade to decade
Century to century
Nothing changes
Nothing stays the same
Hoping our lives change
And praying they stay the same

(repeat chorus twice then fade)


This song was influenced by John Lennon and Sammy Hagar-era Van Halen (especially the 1986 song "Love Walks In"). I think if you read the lyrics you can see a lot of teenage confusion and pain. You can also clearly see (as I mentioned in my other post) that I was scared about what the future may hold. I hope everyone liked it. :)

I have been keeping a diary/ journal for years. It helps me a lot.

I tried to have a diary but it fell apart within days...... I didnt try again.....

Im not big into stuff like that.........

Yes, I have written in a diary/journal probably since late teens. I usually write what is happening in my life or the world. I look back and see I remember meeting so and so at work and my thoughts of the job.

Then as I get older, I am now 68, the lines are more routine. Went to grocery shop. did a wash. I do sometimes wonder who will read the diaries after I am dead.

Wow I cant believe your 68,God bless you Coffecup!!

No but I used to write a little poetry.