Diary entries, moods, and the people around you — kept together long enough to notice the small things that quietly make life feel better.
Free to start. Built for reflection, not broadcast — kept for as long as you want to keep it.
Built around the people who matter
Words and moments, kept as they were
A space that's yours to keep
Memories that outlast the moment
What it holds
Not one page, but the fuller shape of a life — collected in pieces, over time, and never really finished.
Diary
The days, in your own words
Happiness
How your wellbeing moves over time
Constellations
The people your life is built around
Waypoints
The turns your journey has taken
Voiceprints
A voice, kept as it actually sounded
Anchor people
What still holds steady, over time
Events
Gatherings worth remembering rightly
Signatures
Words that outlast the moment
A quiet habit of noticing — the days, the moods, the people — tends to add up to something worth having: a clearer sense of what actually makes things feel good.
Four kinds of questions. Pick your vibe.
When you make your page, you choose a question set — and untick anything you don't want. Your friends answer your questions.
How it works
01
Make your page
Add your name, a line about you, and decide if it's open to everyone or just your circle.
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Send the link
Drop it in a group chat, your bio, wherever your people already are.
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Watch it fill
Every signature lands on your page, dated, and written in their own pen.
Ready to see the shape of your own life?
Free to start. Takes less than a minute — the rest fills in as you go.
Scan to visit
Step one
Make your page
Terms & Conditions
EarthLive is a space for real memories between real people. By creating a page, you agree to:
Be age-appropriate. Keep what you post — on your own page and on anyone else's — suitable for a general audience. If you're under the age where you'd need a parent or guardian's permission to agree to terms like these, please have them create the page with you.
Be kind, on purpose. Don't intentionally write anything hurtful, harassing, or humiliating about a real person, whether it's on your page or someone else's.
Page owners can delete entries and block visitors at any time. Reported entries are reviewed and removed if they break these terms.
My wall
your own words
ME
Tap to record
Adds a voice note — and fills in the text above
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On this day
Waiting for your approval
New signatures land here first. Accept them to post to your page, or decline to leave them off.
Memory map
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For me
Only what involves you. No infinite scroll.
My diary
My private space
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How are you feeling today?
Today
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Your diary
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Your book
Edit my book
Name, cover, photo, bio, one-word seal, your links.
Questions
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See exactly what other people see.
Your link
Anyone with this link can sign your book.
Anyone can scan this to open your book directly.
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Book visibility
Public — others can find you in search and sign your book.
Blocked pages
People you've blocked from your book.
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Deactivate my account
Hides your book, wall and signatures from everyone, and signs you out. Nothing is deleted — sign back in anytime to reactivate.
Delete my book & data
Permanently removes your book, signatures, wall posts, diary, events, and messages. This cannot be undone.
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gets to approve this before it shows up on their page.
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Only the owner can see who's signed.
Find someone
Search for a page
Search finds public pages by name or @username. Private pages never appear here.
New event
What kind of event is this?
Pick a type — the form adapts to what actually matters for your occasion.
Members only
Only members can see this page. Members can post, add photos, tag each other, and edit their own posts. The host approves every join.
Anyone can scan this to open the event. They'll request to join → you approve below.
Run along to see who added what, and when
This is a private event page.
Members
Your events
My Events
Events you host and events you've joined.
Welcome
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Sign in with Google or email to create a page, sign someone's book, or comment.
How EarthLive works
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Sign in ▾
One tap with Google or your email. No passwords to remember.
What you'll see
Welcome to EarthLive
Continue with Google
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you@example.com
Send me a sign-in link
We email you a magic link — click it and you're in. That's the whole thing.
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Create your page ▾
Your name, a photo, a cover, and the questions you want people to answer about you.
The form you'll fill
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Your name
earthlive.in/yourname
Pick your questions
✓ Your favourite memory of me?✓ One word for me?Something you never told me?
Choose a ready-made set of questions or write your own. Add a bio, your ink color, and links. You can change everything later.
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Share your link ▾
Send your personal link to your people — or let them scan your QR code.
Your link and QR
earthlive.in/yourname
Copy
Anyone who scans this lands straight on your book — WhatsApp it, print it at your birthday, put it on a wedding card.
Your link and QR live on your book page — one tap on Share sends it anywhere.
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They sign, you approve ▾
Friends answer your questions and leave a note. Nothing appears until you say yes.
A signature waiting for you
Priya· College friend · one word: "Sunshine"
"Remember the night train to Darjeeling? You sang the whole way and nobody minded…"
✓ ApproveDecline
You are the keeper of your book — every signature waits for your approval, and you can remove any of them later.
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Then the whole world opens up
Your book is just the beginning — tap any room to peek inside it.
Inside My book
Arjun· Brother · "Rock"
"You taught me to ride a cycle by lying that you were holding on…" ♥ 12 💬 3
Maa· locked until your birthday 🔒
This signature unlocks on 12 October — a little time capsule.
Signatures can carry photos, a one-word "stamp" of you, and can even be time-locked to open on a special day. Friends can like and comment on each one.
Inside My wall
You· Balurghat · today
"First mango of the season. Some things never stop being exciting." ♥ 8 💬 2
The wall is where you speak — short posts, photos, and a city tag that pins the memory on your map. People who follow you see your posts in their For You feed.
Inside My diary
How are you feeling today?
Yesterday · 🔒 Sealed · ● Great
"A slow, good morning. Tea on the balcony, no phone for an hour…"
Nobody sees your diary — ever. Pick a mood color each day and watch your month fill in on the calendar. Entries seal at midnight; you can also send one entry to one person, like a letter.
Inside Events
Riya & Dev's Wedding 🔒 Members only
14 members · everyone posts photos and memories · the host approves who joins
Make a page for a wedding, reunion, or trip. Share its link or QR — people request to join, the host approves, and everyone inside posts memories, tags each other, and writes about one another.
The map, and a conversation
📍📍📍Balurghat · Kolkata · Delhi
Just signed your book — check your approvals! 🌸
Saw it, made my whole day ❤️
Every city tagged in a signature or wall post becomes a pin on your memory map. And messages work on requests — nobody can flood you without your yes.
The purpose is simple: the people who love you carry pieces of you they've never written down. EarthLive gives them a place to leave those pieces — before the moment passes.
Somewhere in a box at your parents' house, there's a notebook everyone signed at the end of school. Torn corners, mismatched handwriting, inside jokes you'd half-forgotten. You haven't opened it in years — but you'd never throw it away.
That notebook is where EarthLive started. Not with a feed or a follower count, but with a simple question: what if the people who shaped you could sign your life the way they signed that page — and what if those words never got lost?
The people we carry leave fragments with us. We wanted a place to keep them.
We spend our days on platforms built to keep us scrolling. They're loud, they measure everything, and somehow the moments that actually matter slip through. A friend's voice. The way someone once described you. A photo from a rooftop you can't quite place anymore. These are the things you'd reach for first if the house were on fire — and the things no feed was ever built to hold.
So we built a quieter place. Share one link, and the people in your life leave a message, a colour for their pen, one word that's you. Every entry waits for you before it lands. Memories pin themselves to a map. A diary stays private unless you decide otherwise. And the small moments you'd otherwise forget quietly find their way back to you.
What we believe
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Memories, not metrics. No follower counts, no algorithm deciding what you see. You visit, you feel something, and you close the book.
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Your book is yours. You approve every entry, and you decide who sees it — private by default, shared only by choice.
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People, not strangers. No brands, no influencers, no noise. Just the handful of people who actually know you.
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Kept, not consumed. This isn't a place to perform. It's a place to keep what's worth keeping alive.
EarthLive is still young, and still growing. If you have a thought, an idea, or something that's broken, we'd love to hear it — write to us at hello@earthlive.in.
Digital connection, loneliness, and the case for memory
A synthesis of the evidence behind EarthLive.
I. The epidemiology of disconnection
Contemporary societies present a well-documented paradox: unprecedented communicative capacity coexisting with historically elevated loneliness. The WHO Commission on Social Connection (2025) estimates that one in six individuals globally is affected by loneliness, associated with approximately 871,000 deaths annually. Contrary to the received framing of loneliness as a geriatric condition, prevalence is inverted by age: 79% of adults aged 18–24 meet the threshold on the UCLA Loneliness Scale, the highest of any cohort (Cigna, 2023). Longitudinal meta-analytic evidence spanning 345 studies and roughly 125,000 participants indicates that each successive young-adult generation reports greater loneliness than the one preceding it. Concurrently, reported close-friendship networks have contracted from approximately five confidants to two within a few decades — a phenomenon termed the friendship recession.
II. Behavioural withdrawal from platforms
User behaviour is responding to this condition in measurable ways. Survey data from 2025 indicate that 52% of Generation Z attempted to discontinue social media use, with mental health cited as the primary motivation; 47% of general respondents report having deleted a social application due to stress or anxiety, rising to 56% among Gen Z (Incogni, 2026). Critically, the dominant behavioural pattern is not exit but retreat into controlled participation: reduced posting frequency, restricted audiences, and secondary pseudonymous accounts — a shift from broadcast to bounded disclosure. Qualitative accounts converge on a loss of perceived ownership over the mediated self.
III. Mechanisms of harm
The literature locates the harm not in mediated communication per se but in its modality. The passive-use hypothesis (Verduyn et al., 2017) holds that non-interactive consumption of curated content depresses subjective wellbeing through upward social comparison and envy. A meta-analysis of 141 studies (N ≈ 145,000; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2024) found passive use associated with worse emotional outcomes in general platform contexts, whereas active, directed use predicted greater online support (r = .34), wellbeing, and positive affect. The operative variable, in short, is posture: spectatorship toward weak ties corrodes; addressed communication within strong ties sustains. Case evidence from BeReal further demonstrates that authenticity-framed platforms are not exempt — Thomas and Talbot (2025) document a trajectory from enthusiasm to discontinuance driven by performativity, temporal demand, and feature creep, even as participants valued the platform precisely as a digital memory archive.
IV. Shared remembering as a protective factor
A distinct research programme identifies a countervailing mechanism. Two decades of experimental work on nostalgia (Wildschut et al., 2006; Sedikides & Wildschut, 2025) establish it as a predominantly positive, social emotion with reliable psychological functions: elevated self-esteem, increased meaning in life, and strengthened social connectedness. Zhou, Sedikides, Wildschut, and Gao (2008) demonstrate a homeostatic loop — loneliness triggers nostalgic recall, and nostalgic recall in turn restores perceived connectedness, counteracting the initiating state. Downstream, nostalgia fosters self-continuity, the perceived coherence of identity across time, which mediates eudaimonic wellbeing. Notably, nostalgic narratives characteristically feature the self as protagonist embedded in a social context: the protective memory is, almost by definition, a memory containing one’s people.
V. Design implication
Taken together, these findings specify the architecture of a less harmful — indeed, a restorative — social technology: one that eliminates the conditions for passive spectatorship and upward comparison (no feed, no metrics, no weak-tie audience) while maximising addressed communication within strong ties and the accumulation of retrievable shared memory. EarthLive is an application of this specification: a bounded, owner-moderated memory book populated exclusively by known others, whose stored contents constitute precisely the class of stimuli the nostalgia literature identifies as protective. Its hypothesis follows directly from the evidence reviewed here — that for the loneliest connected generation, the corrective to being endlessly seen is an instrument for being durably known.
EarthLive · a memory book, written on this evidence
Selected references
World Health Organization, Commission on Social Connection (2025). Global report on loneliness and social isolation.Cigna (2023). U.S. Loneliness Index (UCLA Loneliness Scale).Verduyn, P., et al. (2017). Do social network sites enhance or undermine subjective well-being? A critical review.Meta-analysis of active and passive social media use (k = 141, N ≈ 145,000). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (2024).Valkenburg, P. M., van Driel, I. I., & Beyens, I. (2022). The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being. New Media & Society.Zhou, X., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Gao, D.-G. (2008). Counteracting loneliness: On the restorative function of nostalgia. Psychological Science, 19, 1023–1029.Wildschut, T., et al. (2006, 2010); Routledge, C., et al. (2011); Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2018, 2025). The psychological functions of nostalgia.Thomas, L., & Talbot, C. V. (2025). The rise and fall of BeReal. New Media & Society.
The Happiness Library
Short write-ups of published research on memory, connection, and wellbeing — the science behind why EarthLive works. New piece added monthly.
We're listening
Contact us
Something broken? A question? An idea that would make EarthLive better? Write to us — a real person reads every message.
Support & helpTrouble signing in, missing entries, anything not working — hello@earthlive.in
Feedback & ideasTell us what to build next. Early voices shape this place — hello@earthlive.in
Privacy questionsYour data, deleting your account, anything from the Privacy Policy — hello@earthlive.in
When you create a book: your name, bio, profile and cover photos, chosen questions, optional social links, and your email or mobile number if you sign up. When you sign someone's book: your name, answers, message, and any photos you attach. When you write in your diary: the text and title you write. When you create or join an event: the event details, your posts, photos, and comments. We also collect basic technical data (device, browser, approximate location) to keep the service working and secure.
How we use it
To run EarthLive: showing your book to people you share it with, delivering signatures to book owners for approval, keeping your diary private to you, and running event pages for their members. We do not sell your personal data. We do not show your private pages to anyone but you.
Who can see what
Public books are visible to anyone with the link and may appear in search. Private books show only your name, bio, and photos — the entries are visible only to you. Signatures never appear publicly until the book owner approves them.
Your diary is private by default and visible only to you. An entry becomes visible to someone else only when you explicitly choose it: sharing an entry with one person makes it readable by that person alone, and adding an entry to your book makes it visible to whoever can see your book. You can change an entry back to private at any time, which removes it from your book. As a matter of policy and access control, nobody at EarthLive reads your diary.
Optional end-to-end encryption
You can turn on encryption for private diary entries and, separately, for messages once the other person has also turned it on. When encryption is on, your content is scrambled on your own device using a passphrase only you hold, before it is ever sent to our servers — this is a technical guarantee, not just a policy: EarthLive cannot read this content even if we wanted to, because we never have the key.
This comes with a real risk we want you to understand clearly: if you lose both your passphrase and the one-time recovery code shown when you set it up, that content becomes permanently unreadable — including to us. We have no way to reset or recover it, by design. Diary entries you share with someone else, event pages, and Waypoints are not covered by this feature and remain protected the way the rest of this policy describes.
Event pages are visible only to approved members. The event host approves every person who joins, and can remove members or posts. People who aren't members see only the event name and member count.
Your choices
You can edit or delete your book, decline or remove any signature, delete any diary entry, leave or delete events, switch between public and private at any time, and request deletion of your account and data by writing to hello@earthlive.in. We will act on verified requests within 30 days.
Children
EarthLive is not intended for children under 13 (or the higher minimum age in your region). If you believe a child's data has been collected, contact us and we will remove it.
By using EarthLive (earthlive.in) you agree to these terms. You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your region. You are responsible for your account and everything posted from it.
Your content
You own what you write and upload. By posting, you give EarthLive a licence to store and display it as needed to run the service. Only upload photos and words you have the right to share — no impersonation, and no posting other people's private information.
What's not allowed
Harassment, bullying, hate speech, threats, sexual content involving minors, spam, malware, or using the service to harm anyone. Page owners control their own pages and may decline or remove any signature. We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these rules.
Optional encryption
If you turn on encryption for your diary or messages, you are responsible for keeping your passphrase and recovery code safe. If both are lost, that content is permanently unreadable, and EarthLive cannot recover it under any circumstances — this is a deliberate, technical limitation of how the feature works, not a policy we can override on request.
Our service
EarthLive is provided "as is." We work hard to keep it available and your data safe, but we can't guarantee uninterrupted service, and we're not liable for content posted by users. We may update features and these terms; continued use means acceptance of updates.
An index to your whole book, newest at the top. Every bar is a record you already have. Run down it and the reading follows you.
Ways to look back
Constellation
The same records arranged by who and what instead of when. You sit at the centre; the people who show up most often orbit closest.
Ways to look back
Happiness
A quiet read of your mood log and the words in and around your entries. Never a diagnosis — just a reflection, kept private unless you choose otherwise.
Ways to look back
Voiceprints
Every voice recording left in your book, in one place. Never a plain audio player — always the barcode, so a voice is recognisable as an EarthLive object anywhere it appears.
Your song history
Songs you've picked before for your own book — never anyone else's. Tap one to bring it back.
Ways to look back
Anchor People
Not a followers list — a small, unranked set of the people closest to you right now. Nothing here is scored or counted on purpose.
Messages
New circle
A shared thread your people write together. Only members can see it.
Adjust your photo
Drag the photo to reposition · slide to resize
Your details
The classic memory book page — fill in what you like, leave the rest blank.
Add a location to this photo
It will pin here on your map. Photos without location data won’t pin automatically — you can type a city for them here.
Choose a favourite song
Search any track. A short preview plays on your book — up to one minute, one song at a time.
Now on your page.
Your words are on their way.
Want a memory book of your own? Your people write in it. You keep it forever.
Sign this page
Add your name and a memory — it takes a minute.
Print my book
EarthLive composes and organises everything automatically.
Sealed notes stay sealed — they print as locked pages with their open date.