Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with 41. ______ problems might go onto the Internet and write about his problems in a blog. In many ways a diary and a blog are very similar. So, what makes blogging different 42. ______ writing in diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more 43. ______ than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of secrets that she does not want to 44. ______.
The biggest 45. ______ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something bad about her in my diary, she would never know! 46. ______, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend 47. ______ read her blog and get a “cry”.
There are also 48. ______ to blogging, of course. If I felt sad one day and wrote in my diary: “Nobody cares about me.” 49. ______ would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly respond and comfort her. Blogs help people 50. ______ in touch with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.___