Whenever my online journal is brought up in a conversation not online, I get one of three responses from my friends:
(1) The nice, cool people will always say "Oh, your journal is the best!" or mention something they liked about a recent entry.
(2) The somewhat oblivious ones will go "I didnt know you had one! Let's swap addresses!".
(3) The ignorant ones will retort "Why the hell would you have an online journal? Nobody reads it anyhow! Nobody cares about you!"

I post today regarding those third ignorant fools who just cant seem to grasp the greatness of what this nifty little blogger can do for me and other people.

Unless you're one of those totally expressive people who can talk truthfully and completely at every moment of the day to everyone, and almost nobody is, you've got to have an outlet for your thoughts and feelings. I admire people that keep private journals and whatever else, that's fine. I do it to, I just choose to supplement private entries with public ones. What I dont get is people who go about jamming their fingers in every orifice they possess:

and refusing to express themselves. In the process of doing so, they deny themselves any personality whatsoever and then they wonder why they have no friends. A person who cannot let out his or her feelings is not a person at all, but just a worker: existent only to continue their own existence.

Of course, there arent many soulless people around either. Most of the people who say that online journals are gay are just horrible hippocrites. They detest blogs, only to turn around and post their feelings and opinions in a forum or over AIM. That's really standing by your conviction.

.eljay