does anybody here still keeps diaries? or still writing on their diaries?

I still write in a diary. I also keep all my old diaries. I really don't worry about people reading them, even though I've written some really personal stuff in them. I don't know why I don't worry, really. Most people consider reading a diary a huge violation of privacy, and if you do read someone's diary then you'd be looked down upon, I guess.

Oh no :( I Experienced the sort of same thing and I wouldn't wish that on anybody else. I was sexually abused by a friends father and I wrote down all of my feelings for about 3 months, because I was a wreck, and in High School somebody found my book and read it out to the whole class whilst I was in the bathroom. I hated it. So the only diary I keep now is my weightwatchers food diary :) x

I used to keep a diary until I thought one day if anything happened to me other people will be reading it and I thought OMG we can't have that so I ripped it all up, I too thought about all the secret things in there...

I used to keep a diary all the time until several years ago when a guy I was with decided it was his place to read all that I had written in them. He was very insecure in our relationship and some of what he read in them he would use to argue with me about things that were going on between he and I, even though it had nothing to do with him. I didn't write every day but when I was troubled or needed to talk to someone, writing it down was the best way for me to get it out of my mind and make it go away from my thoughts. Since then, I rarely write and at that time, in my anger at finding that he had read them, I sat in front of him and destroyed every one of them...........I think there were 4 or 5 notebooks from the couple of years before I had known him and this was adult years after 2 marriages and lots of personal things going on within myself. I still have one but don't write in it very often, and wish I still had those older ones to remember some of the things that I had written back then.

I destoyed all of my journals from when I was ages eleven to seventeen because there was just way too much in there I didn't want anyone reading. I wish I hadn't done that. Now, I have a journal collection from when I was twenty-two until now (I'm almost 34) and I don't intend to destroy these books. I have filled fourteen hardback 8x11 journals and I don't forsee myself ending this type of writing anytime soon.