If they wanted privacy, they would keep their journals under the bed. According to Kymm Zuckert, the site administrator, people like reading about others' day-today existences, especially if their lives are different. Oh, so this is what it's like to be an American woman living in Italy with your Italian husband. This is what it's like to be an architect in New York. Net indexes more than 1,900.
Relationships develop as readers respond to journal entries.
Readers support the mother who is waiting to hear if her son is going to jail, comfort a woman whose husband has cancer, and laugh sympathetically at a young man's failed romantic exploits. He writes a journal called Late Night Snacks at the end of each day. I feel more compelled than I would otherwise to explain clearly the events and feelings that are subjects of its entries. The result, of course, is that I gain a much better understanding of myself and why I reacted to the day as I did. I enjoy telling stories of my small world and audiences don't come much wider.