PSA

An Open Diary is not a blog.

A blog is a web journal maintained either off a blogger’s own website, or off a blogging site like blogspot or typepad that is not centrally located and does not have “circles” or “communities” or “reader’s choice” or a “DiaryMaster.”

Open Diary, Xanga, Myspace, LiveJournal, and so on are all diary communities and nothing on them is a blog.

If you refer to your Open Diary as a blog, you are being pretentious, and if someone asks for the name of your blog and you direct them to Open Diary, they are probably going to crack up.

A real blog is not difficult to start and maintain, and it’s free! I have one myself. I have one because I got to know a bunch of people who were all interested in the same thing and all had blogs, and every time I tried to get them to come to my diary instead (I did not refer to my diary as my blog), they rolled their cyber-eyes a little. So I got a blog, already.

If you are referring to your diary as a blog, either get a blog, already, or face that you are addicted to functions of OD that don’t come with a blog, such as the Politics Circle and the number of offensive notes you get here, and suck it up, and call it a diary.

I know “diary” sounds like something a twelve-year-old girl keeps. Take it up with the DM, or move to LJ. “Journal” sounds more like a seventeen-year-old boy with pretentions to sensitivity. “Blog” sounds all grown up and important, which, I am aware, is why you are using it, so… get a blog, already.

‘Kay? ‘Kay.