Online diaries: "A sense of belonging"

"There was a time when girls used to keep little diaries and they would have a lock and key on them and write their most intimate thoughts in them. Now they put them on the internet and many, many other people from all round the world identify. That gives you a sense of belonging". - Gabriel Byrne in an interview with the "Guardian".

Source: Catherine Shoard: "Gabriel Byrne on romance, privacy and the end of the world". In: The Guardian, May 28, 2015.

Philippa Willitts: "Dear Diary. The beginning of a child's diary entry". Flickr, May 5, 2008, CC-BY-NC