Most teenage girls still tell all in diaries

TEENAGERS are still using private diaries to record their innermost thoughts despite the advent of social media, research has revealed.
By The Newsroom
Published 14th Jan 2013, 06:00 BST

A new survey found that 83 per cent of today’s girls aged between 16 and 19 keep a personal pen-and-paper diary, up from 69 per cent in the 1990s.

While 71 per cent say that they post only some of their feelings and thoughts on social media, most teenage girls (95 per cent) keep their deepest emotions out of sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the research for digital TV channel E4 found.

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As well as not revealing crushes, problems at home, depression and body image issues on such sites, more than half (53 per cent) say that they exaggerate on social media. Over three quarters (78 per cent) say that they have worries about posting thoughts and feelings online.

About two-thirds say that they keep a diary for therapeutic reasons, with 64 per cent saying that writing in a private diary makes them feel better.

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