Fewer than one in ten of us keep conventional diaries
Caroline:
March 29th, 2007
It’s a good job that Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank did not live in a computer age. It seems that fewer than one in ten of us keep a conventional diary nowadays and teenagers in particular are far more likely to pour their hearts out in a blog than in a “Dear Diary” confessional. Historians are concerned that this will lead to a dearth of contemporaneous records for future generations. The anonymity of a blog is appealing and teenagers reckon that their parents and teachers are such dinosaurs that they will be far less likely to uncover their inner secrets online than pick the lock of their diary!