Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary. Now a teenager 1 the problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very similar. But what makes blogging different from writing in a traditional diary? The biggest difference is 2 a blog is much more public than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book 3 secrets that he does not want to share with others. It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 4 a diary will probably write nearly the same information. I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not 5 enough for her chemistry test. When I was her age , I wrote about the same things, 6 only in my dairy. Then , after I had finished writing , I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 7 that my sister might read it. Because blogging is such a public way of writing, it has both good and bad points. The biggest problem with blogging is that anyone can read 8 you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something mean about him in my diary, he would never know. However, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might read her blog and get 9 Because we do not always think about things carefully before we write about our days, it is easy to accidentally write something that hurts 10 feelings in a blog. Therefore, we have to be always very careful of what we will write.