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To interact, that's why. Very few people who come here write private updates and then disappear. They come here with the point of meeting people with similar interests, or interacting, or playing a roleplaying game. Once the interaction stops, you stop logging in to check it, then what? You expect that what you wrote over a year and 5 months ago will remain intact for eternity?
Unfortunately this is a website, and that data has to be maintained on a server, and that server is run through cables/electricity, and is at it's very basis costing the website money each and every day to maintain.
It's not a journal that you can write in and cement into a wall and forget about. A paper journal is self-sustaining, requires no outside resources. It's not an external harddrive you can add data too and then unhook from your computer and the wall and leave alone. It constantly has to be maintained to allow people who want to interact with it to be able to access that data.
Unfortunately this is a website, and that data has to be maintained on a server, and that server is run through cables/electricity, and is at it's very basis costing the website money each and every day to maintain.
It's not a journal that you can write in and cement into a wall and forget about. A paper journal is self-sustaining, requires no outside resources. It's not an external harddrive you can add data too and then unhook from your computer and the wall and leave alone. It constantly has to be maintained to allow people who want to interact with it to be able to access that data.