A Blog or A Diary?

Assalamualaikum...

 

What is the difference between a blog and a diary or journal exactly? Since years ago I was always wondering why people sometimes called their blog as their private journals. It could be a daily journal or weekly or whatever. For me, a blog is a public place where you share something with others, which is not personal. Well, maybe not too personal. And as far as I know, diary is a private place where you express and voice out your feeling which is kinda personal that happens in your life. A diary cannot be, and shouldn’t be seen or read by other people just like a blog. Or am I the only who think it that way?

Since I love to read blogs rather than writing it, I found that some people used the blog as their medium to talk about their personal matters. Don’t get me wrong. What I mean here is that they just exposed whatever negative feelings they had towards other people and talking bad about them, like nobody would read what they wrote. Pppfff! Hello! What if the person you mentioned in your blog read that? Well, you might not mention his/her name but that person must’ve known what you’re talking about. No matter how bad the person is, and how hates you are towards that person, blog is not the place where you can tell everyone about the problem you had with someone.  Just let it be your personal problem, or at least it’s just between you and the one that related to it, but not everyone.  

Even if you want to express your anger, do it in your personal diary. That is one of the ways could be used to express any feelings you have towards someone. You can even be a jerk to ‘em or say such ‘bad damn’ words or whatever you feel to ‘em, and nobody knows. Probably every person has their own way to show their feelings. I mean maybe they feel a bit relief to let all the people know about what’s going on in their life, how they feel towards someone, and how they talking bad about someone. Of course you have you own way to express it but isn’t it kinda immature when you exposed the negative sides or weaknesses of the person, and it’s like you’re the only ‘Mr/Mrs Right’? Because for sure you don’t wanna be seemed like a bad person, huh..

So I’m saying if you want to talk about something, I mean in your blog, think about it first. Because there are lots of people read your stories and who knows the one that read your blog could be the person you mentioned in your blog or someone who related with that person. So be careful. Till then, Wasalam.