Years ago,if a teenager had some problems in her life,she might go home and write in her diary.
Now,a teenager with __1__ problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客).
In many ways,a diary and a blog are very __2__.So,what makes blogging different from writing in
__3__ diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more __4__ than a diary.Usually,a teenager treats
her diary like a book full of __5__ that she does not want to __6__.
It's interesting that someone who writes in a blog __7__ a diary will probably write nearly the same
information.
I have a little sister,and sometimes I go online to read her __8__.She writes about things like waking
up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.__9__ I was her age,I
wrote about the same things,but __10__ in my diary.Then,after I had finished writing,I would hide my
diary in a secret place because I was __11__ that my sister might read it!
The biggest __12__ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write.If I was angry with a
friend during high school and wrote something __13__ about her in my diary,she would never know.
__14__,if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend,that friend __15__ read her blog and get
angry.
There are also __16__ to blogging,of course.If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary,
"Nobody cares about me,"__17__ would know about it.However,if my sister wrote the same sentence
in her blog,her best friends would __18__ respond(回应)and tell her how much they __19__ her.Blogs
help people __20__ in contact with their friends and to hear what the people around them are doing.