I've been on Diaryland since 2001. That's right, for 25 years. I've made real friends here, some I've known the whole time, some slightly less. This little corner of the web has been my therapist, my reality check, my feelings validator, my running memoir. A lot has changed over the years, but my love for this place remains.
wordwhore
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I arrived in March of 2009, and it was the hardest thing in the world to come here after leaving a failed marriage. Most of my earliest posts I deleted ages ago; they were sleep-deprived rants of a lunatic. Not that my current stuff is much better, but it's just a little more coherent. In the early years, these pages rarely focused on me, but as time went on, I started putting the spotlight more on myself. This place and all of you were all I had at times, and I owe you all a debt of gratitude. Thank you for saving me, Dland, and thank you to Andrew for saving it.
jimbostaxi
Writing here for 17 years
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I'm conscious of my basic emotional needs, one being a need to give and receive attention. So when a man I talked with used some redpill ignoring me tactic I looked for somewhere else to be seen so my mental health wouldn't take a hit. I've been surprised so far, that writing here feels better than messaging someone my shower thoughts. I don't feel like a narcissist anymore. I mostly post publicly because it encourages me not to dwell too much on negative things and to do things worth writing about. I prefer to be stoic. I had a mopey diary once, it didn't help and got burnt.
irma-fairy
Member since July 2026
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In the still kinda early days of the interwebs, I stumbled into an online friendship with a person who ran a "Johnny the Homicidal Manic" fan site and invited me to check out their diary.
Since then Diaryland has become a decades-long outlet for self analysis and personal development that has quite literally saved and changed my life as I've been afforded a place to reflect on the past while navigating the anxieties of looking forward to the future I have with a fellow diarylander whom I married a couple of years ago after over a decade of sharing an intimacy you can't really replicate...
angelspit609
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I started this diary when I was just 14 years old and in 8th grade in 2003. I am now 37 years old and have had this diary for 23 years. This diary has literally chronicled me becoming an adult. I’m so glad this website has been updated because it literally contains my own personal history!
happyone
Writing here for 23 years
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Back in the mid-to-late nineties, I was reading the Diary-L mailing list and similar, and considering throwing my hat into the ring. Sites like LiveJournal and Blogger were just starting up, but I couldn’t find the community that felt right, and I couldn’t afford web hosting to build my own platform. Fortunately, I eventually heard about Diaryland on the Diary-L list not very long after it started, so I signed up. From there I began pouring out my thoughts for the world to see. At first it felt silly and it took a while to find my voice, but slowly I found a (very) small but dedicated...
Emma
Member since October 1999
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I wrote my first entry in 2000!! I wrote a lot of entries. Maybe a thousand in total over the years. That’s crazy- decades ago. I was tired of my hand cramping while trying to write in an actual paper diary. It was all exciting and my IRL friends joined, too, and I discovered SO many cool diaries and some became close friends. I don’t know what made me come back. Middle age and insanely wistful nostalgia for a younger me.
tater-fay69
Member since July 2026
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