14. It is a fallacy to assume that printed diaries were always personal and intended to be private. Van Dijck, in her “Composing the Self,” argues that the diary is always written for an audience, whether or not that audience ever reads the diary. She disregards the categorization of diaries into “public” and “private”: all diaries are written to an addressee. Also see Lee Humphreys’s piece “Historicizing Microblogging,” which compares micro-blogging to historical diaries.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 1000