Does anybody have a URL of an online site that has diaries or journals that a person can write in, privately? I did a Google search and all I can find are online diaries that everybody else can read also. My daughter wants to keep a diary, but she doesn’t want anybody else to read it. It has to have a password feature.
Thanx
Why not just get her an electronic diary? Girl Tech sells a diary that has voice recognition and can only be opened by the correct voice saying the right password. (In case she’s concerned her little brother might read it.)
I wouldn’t recommend an on-line diary, especially if privacy is a concern.
For an online journal, I use a seperate hotmail account. I set it up as XXXjournal(X’s being my initials) and I can make an entry from any e-mail account. I use that account for nothing else, and the spam level really is less.
You can use a Delphi forum as a journal. At http://www.delphi.com , you can create your own message board with up to 16 categories (folders) for posts. If you want to make it private, nobody else gets in (obviously).
All Delphi requires is that you create for yourself a unique membername and give them an e-mail address – it doesn’t even have to be a valid e-mail address. Oh, and she’ll have to say she’s over 13.
After you have an account, you can create your own forum. You need to think of a unique “webtag,” which will go in the URL of the forum. (Other blanks in the forum-creation form should be filled in with as little as possible.) Your diary entries will consist of messages that you post into your categories.
After you’ve been there and want to go back, start your session at http://myforums.com to see your forum listed (and any others you’ve visited).
Quoth Lissa
While I’m not exactly up on the state of the art, I would recommend this: It seems very likely that it’ll either lock her out, too, half the time, or open up for anything that sounds vaguely remotely like her saying the password. Voice-recognition is still in its infancy.
First, thanks for the replies.
Now, boy do I feel like a big duh. I use Yahoo for my home page. I was poking around on their site and low and behold, they have a thing called “notebook”. It is user and password protected so it seems like just the thing. At least I can only assume that if you have to have a password to get into it, nobody else can read it. Correct? I may even use it for my private thoughts, and I wouldn’t want anybody else to see that. :D:D
Or, if you have Microsoft Word, you can password protect *.doc files. That is how I keep my diary.
My little sister has one of those Girl Tech diaries. They seem to work really well. When she first got it, we all tried to “break in” to it but it really would only accept her voice. It was kinda neat.