Now with the internet and Facebook it will be easy to look back on your life and see what you were doing every day. And twitter, because you will be writing down all the little things you are doing. But no one does it for posterity, they do it for conversation. People narrate their lives to each other to mark the passing time, to continually place themselves in the timestream, in the flowing present, continually recontextualising themselves. Writing a diary is a similar process but is more concerned with the past and the future.
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