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Some of the most fascinating, revealing and stimulating blogs are those that are simply a personal record of all that happens in a person's life.

Admit it!  You're interested in people, in what motivates them, what happens to them and how they react to the world around them.  Perhaps you just like reading about people, maybe you enjoy seeing how they live out personal lives that are very different to your own or maybe you're just there for the voyeurism.  Whatever it is, there's something very special about online journals.

Firstly, there's nothing wrong in simply being nosey and wanting to read about other people's thoughts and feelings - should they wish to share them.  It's all a part of being human so don't get hung up.

However, not all blogs you find are intriguing insights into the writer's character and life: some online personal journals can be just plain boring!  Reading about what people ate for dinner, what they saw on the bus going to work and all the minutia of what happened during the working day is unlikely to make for riveting reading!

But this is half the fun of journal-surfing.  It's the constant search to find that one special person with whom you can identify and with whom you feel a oneness that lets you experience with them the trials of their private lives. 

Finding them
So, how do you find juicy journals like this?  There's no magic way, unfortunately, you just have to surf and find.  To make life harder, many blogs like this are private journals or open only to friends so it's hard to give any firm pointers but they often live on older, perhaps more cliquish, hosts like LiveJournal and Xanga.  It's really a case of just searching blog directories and remembering to bookmark those that seem possibles for later reading.

From a different perspective, if you're motivated to start your own journal - and writing an online diary is very therapeutic - remember that blogs are designed to be read by everyone and anyone.  If you want your writing to be seen only by you or your friends then you must take the time to find out how to make it private.  This is most important if you want to prevent people being able to read about your innermost thoughts and fantasies!

That said, blogs like this are fascinating both to write and read and it is a field of blogging about which little is written for there are few rules except to write what you feel like writing. 

If you have a personal journal that you feel is interesting and that we can all read then please post a link below.

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