1 . Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with _______ problems might go onto the Internet and write about his problems in a blog. In many ways a diary and a blog are very _______. So, what makes blogging different from writing in _______ diary?

The biggest difference is that blogging is much more _______ than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of _______ that he does not want to _______. It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog _______ a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her _______. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. _______ I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but ________ in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was ________ that my sister might read it!

The biggest ________ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something ________ about her in my diary, she would never know! ________, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend ________ read her blog and get a “cry”. There are also ________ to blogging, of course. If I felt sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,” ________ would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would ________ respond and tell her how much they ________ her. Blogs help people ________ in touch with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.