Me being just as catty as the person I'm accusing of being catty

[Ben Z.]

There's a girl from my high school who keeps a regularly updated livejournal. I didn't become privy to the whole livejournaling scene until the end of high school, but from what I can gather it's not something that you keep around past a certain age, that age being maybe 16 years old.But this girl updates her journal several times a week. Every entry is like something from a diary - the things she did that day, the people she talked to on the phone, the movies and TV shows she's seen. She includes her current "mood" at the end of every entry in the form of Hamtaro icons. I think this girl is 20 years old. Her posts are infused, also, with a cliquish, 8th-grade cattiness that at times seems to border on self-parody. Her concern with friends being "bitches" and mapping out the intricate web of infighting and alliances, especially as they pertain to finding an apartment, smack of juvenility. She had a dream once that her boyfriend was cheating on her, and that became a big issue for a while, according to her LiveJournal.What fascinates me about her livejournal, then, is how un-bloglike it is. She treats this website like, holy shit, a journal. I don't think that if she kept an actual journal the content would be any different. But for most bloggers, myself included, the content placed online and the content that one would traditionally expect to find in a journal are very different. Blogs are hipper, less detail-oriented, and less personal as a whole. They typically chronicle, usually in a concise format, something that interests the writer at the moment. The online act of journal keeping seems to die out as kids leave high school, for a couple of reasons: they are incriminating as fuck, and no one else reads them. They're also extremely superficial, in that an honest journal-keeper isn't writing to the world, but to himself. An oft-updated Live Journal demands an undue amount of self-absorption and narrow-mindedness.From May 20th:"Oh and I asked my Tarot cards about M___a and how i should deal with that situation and I did a one card draw: shuffled cut, shuffled cut and took the top one. And I got "Death" in the upright position, signifying change for the better, so id like some thought on that."no one commented.