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  • Your Journal
    • Entries can include:
      • The basics: subject, text, and date.
      • Small pictures used to represent you.
      • Current mood text/icon and your current music.
      • Polls that automatically tabulate votes.
    • Per-entry security lets you restrict entries to just yourself or groups of your friends.
    • Comments on each entry support paging and threading (comments replying to other comments).
    • A user profile includes:
      • A mini-biography.
      • A list of your interests, another way to find other users.
      • A link to our text message gateway that won't reveal your cell phone number.
      • Who you've befriended, who's befriended you.
      • What communities you read and participate in.
    • Fully integrated photo storage with basic image and photo editing.
  • Privacy
    • You control:
      • Who can see each individual entry.
      • Who can see your contact information.
      • Who can text message you.
      • Who can leave comments, and whose comments are screened pending your approval.
      • Who can participate in individual polls.
    • Ban other users from your journal or community.
  • Customization
    • Easily modify the look of your journal, using either a template-based style system or a higher-level customization wizard.
    • For more control, program your own style with the S2 programming language.
    • Embed your journal into your own web page.
  • Friends
    • A built-in aggregator (called the "friends view") shows all of your friends' entries in one page.
    • Friend groups let you classify people for both filtering and security.
    • Syndication lets you read offsite news sources (RSS) just like they were other users.
  • Software
    • Client programs (for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and more) let you update journals without opening a web browser.
  • Social Networking
  • Interoperability
    • The RSS feed of every journal lets other sites/tools aggregate your content.
    • Full Unicode support allows you to write in any language.
    • Our site is available in many languages.
  • Open Process
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