I do not keep a journal.
I thought about it so many times, and I think its a wonderful idea. To sit down and get all your thoughts on a piece of paper, whether it's virtual or physical, seems like a great way to sort out your mind. However, I do not think that putting it online is necessarily a good idea. once something is online, that is where it lives for eternity. there is no way to truly delete something, it is always there is one form or another. At some point won't you lose the reason why you started in the first place? If you start posting because you feel like you have to, is there a point anymore? starting from that moment, you lose your sense of purpose when it comes to journaling online.
On the other hand, when it comes to reading other people's journals, why do we do it? Is it to study other cultures and other ways of life? Or is it a way to escape the lives we live in by reading all about someone else's? To read someone else's stream of consciousness is a way to run away from our own problems and thoughts for a bit.
In saying that I also think that most people who journal write from a stream of consciousness, but I do not think that should stop other people from learning about this person's mistakes or goals. It is said that we have to make mistakes before we can learn to not make them again. What if we learn from other people's mistakes instead?
Grammar should not matter in an online journal. I feel as though if someone would not care about what it would look like on paper, they should not care what it looks like on-screen either.
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I would agree that we read journals to gain a better understanding of the conscious mind of others. In your blog you mentioned the "stream of consciousness when we write". This is so true we write to share our own experiences and challenges hoping that others can relate. More importantly, we write with a consciousness that helps us to demonstrate what we want or expect to be true when we know in many cases it can not be.
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