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Years ago,if a teenager had some problems in his life,he might go home and write in his diary;now, a teenager with __41___ 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 ___42___; But what makes blogging different from writing in an traditional diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more ___43___ than a diary. Usually,a teenager treats his diary like a book full of secrets that he does not want to ___44___ with others.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog instead of a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
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 ___46___ about him in my diary, he would never know. ___47___, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might read her blog and get angry.
There are also ___48___ to blogging, of course.If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me…”, no one would know about it.However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly ___49___ and tell her how much they like her.Blog help people ___40___ in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.