How many times have you lost track of who in your group of long-distance friends is dating whom and who's not speaking to whom?

Going away to college and being away from people who you're used to seeing every day is hard.

It's difficult to find the time to share with everyone you know the latest factoid in your life.

Thankfully sites like www.livejournal.com exist to help deal with this problem.

Anybody can open a free account where they have access to their own personal online journal.

At a time that's good for you, you can write random thoughts such as what's going on in your life, poetry, or anything else you'd write in a journal.

Your friends can read all about it when they have time, and that way they can keep up with you and your ever-changing love life.

They can also leave comments on your particular entry; thus keeping in touch is greatly facilitated.

Livejournal.com also allows for you to customize the colors and style of your journal and offers "moodicons," tiny symbols to show if you're feeling horny, numb, or any other plethora of emotions.

Another wonderful aspect of this Web site is the ability to mark certain entries as memories so that you can easily find the entry where you wrote about meeting Mr. Right or that girl who stole your boyfriend falling down the stairs humiliating herself at a party.

And you can relive it over and over again.

Livejournal.com is also a great way to find people with common interests or who live in the same location as you.

Livejournal.com is also endless hours of fun thanks to certain users who go by the names of celebrities and write fake entries. One of the funniest is a user with the name miss_cleo.

Everyone's favorite tele-psychic wrote, "I'm going to focus all my powa on getting some new shoes, babies. Dees ones are giving Miss Cleo soo many corns. I need someone to rub mah tired feet, mammah. Does anyone want a job workin for Miss Cleo's feet?"

Others mocked on this site include President Bush, whose journal is called, "George Dubya Loves Cheese Just Like You!"

The two biggest downsides to this site are frequent shutdowns and slow connections.

There is also the very real possibility of accidentally writing about something you wished a friend hadn't known, such as their hideous new haircut or that crush you have on their boyfriend.

— Reviewed by Debra Bell