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34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful

juliaf1

Perfect way to keep a diary 18/01/2005

User recommends the product

Advantages Quick sign help, helpful support, vast range of communities
Disadvantages limited customisation, occassional database problems

I always liked the romantic ideals around keeping a diary, being able to read them back in 10 years time and cringe when you read about your crush for that day. In practice though it was a lot harder and by about the 5th January I'd usually give up. When I stumbled across LiveJournal I thought I'd have a go at keeping a diary again, I was older (apparently wiser too) and in this technological age had friends scattered across the world or on the end of an internet connection so I felt having an online dairy would be a better way of keeping in touch. Creating a Journal When I signed up with ... more
27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful

amytheduck

The Best Place to Blog 25/05/2007

User recommends the product

Advantages Easy to use, communities feature, better than myspace!
Disadvantages Hard to find good, useable layouts

Being a member of the Harry Potter fandom, and subsequently following a fanfiction being posted on a livejournal, I eventually took the plunge and signed up for one last October. Since then, I've updated a few times a month, and it's definitely a great way of keeping track of various communities and interests. **What is it?** LiveJournal.com is, in essence, a blogging site. LiveJournal was founded in 1999, and so you could say it is the original blogging website. There's a lot you can do on LiveJournal, but I will cover each feature in its own section. In the past, you had to be given an ... more
43 of 43 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Secre

Member since 23/04/2003

Reviews written: 206

A diary you cannot lose... 10/10/2006

User recommends the product

Advantages Easy way to write down your thoughts and keep in touch with people
Disadvantages Careful who's reading them...

www.livejournal.com is a service I used ages ago, lost interest and have some back to fairly recently. The basic idea is very simple, it's an online diary, you write your thoughts, feelings etc and post them on your journal or you comment on other people's diary entries. Creating an account Creating an account is very simple, on first going on to the site at the top left there is a link stating 'create an account'. Click on said link and you will be taken to a form. Basically all they want to know is username, email address, password, and birthdate. Apparently it used to be invite or paid ... more
91 of 91 Ciao users found the following review helpful

MissDirect

Want to Peek Between my Sheets 22/10/2002

User recommends the product

Advantages Well designed site, easy to use, non profit making, innovative.
Disadvantages A bit of a hassle to join, the worry that someone unwanted may read your private thoughts.

I kept a diary from the age of 10 up till I was 17. I used to write in it nearly every night, and used it to sort out the feelings and thoughts rushing through my mind. I always felt better after writing it and like to read back on them when time has passed to see how I had changed. I'm 20 now and not used to writing my feelings down, but am eager to do so because I enjoy it, and it is good for my writing skills. I belong to an online community for young people and became curious when I heard people talking about their 'livejournal'. I wandered over to the site, at www.livejournal.com to have ... more
30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful

davidbuttery

Member since 23/01/2001

Reviews written: 445

Live to Write 09/02/2004

User recommends the product

Advantages Large userbase, genuine community feel
Disadvantages Uneven speed

LiveJournal (hereafter generally abbreviated to LJ) is the biggest and probably the best known of the slew of "online diary" sites that pepper the web. Mind you, its name might not be thought terribly promising. "LiveJournal." For one thing, what is "Live" supposed to mean? That it's regularly updated? Well, isn't that the point of a diary in any case? Neither does that internal capitalisation help matters. But still, these are minor quibbles. Let's get on. I'll start by considering something that matters to most of us, which is to say money. LJ tries hard to get its users to subscribe to a ... more