Blogging: Is it the new Diary?

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Remember when you were younger: If you were a boy you were always searching the house for your sister's diary. If you were a girl, you were carefully hiding your diary and hiding that special key...really it was the key to your heart. Everything in that diary was private and personal. You told it more secrets than you told your best girlfriend. Do kids even keep diaries anymore? Instead, from what I see, they are into blogging. I think blogging started out like a personal journal. Then kids got stalked by weirdos because they started putting stuff in their blogs that was way too telling in terms of their personal details and private lives. Now you can get blogs with all kinds of options. The author can choose to whom they show it when they set it up. Or, they can set it up to be read by a particular group and they can even leave their comments and pictures from each other. By these definitions, myLot is like a blog. A couple kids I know write in their blogs on MySpace almost everyday. Between their usual entries and answering their friends comments, they might write in them five or six or more times a day. In fact, I have heard my kids reading their blogs and comments out loud, and it almost sounds like they are using blogs to communicate instead of chat or email. I find that really interesting. The funniest thing about this using blogs to write back and forth and converse is that they will do it with each other right in the room, clicking back and forth in various windows over a chosen group of friends' blogs...adding comments, waiting for replies...etc... "Come here! See what I wrote!" "OMG, LOL, see what she wrote back!"It's almost like we're going back in time to the old computer bulletin boards. Pretty soon, they'll be using diaries again!