Blogging Is Good For Your Health
Exciting news from Discovery:
Blogging’s Good For Your Health
Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new research has found.
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“We found potential bloggers were less satisfied with their friendships and they felt less socially integrated, they didn’t feel as much part of a community as the people who weren’t interested in blogging … they were also more likely to use venting or expressing your emotions as a way of coping,” Moore said.
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All respondents, whether or not they blogged, reported feeling less anxious, depressed and stressed after two months of online social networking.
“So going onto MySpace had lifted the mood of all participants in some way,” Moore says. “Maybe they’d just made more social connections.”
But we already knew that, didn’t we? I know that blogging has helped me express myself in ways that were not always feasible in face-to-face situations. I know that it has pushed me to transfer what’s on my mind into words and points of view that I can support in real-life. I know that it has shaped and reflected some aspects of my character. I also know that it has provided a channel of communication between me and like-minded people, as well as others, which would not have been possible otherwise.
Tololy’s Box is four years old, and there is no telling just when I will close shop. Bottom line: blog on!
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March 4th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Happy Birthday, Tololy’s Box!!! It’s been a fun and wild ride!<br />
March 5th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Happy 4th birth day BOX</p>
<p>Blogging is good for yr sanity, good for health, a sort of journalism. a venting steam forum, a media to express your feeling about issues with the apparent security of obscurity? a social networking podium, blogging is many a thing. Bloggers do blog for most of the above but nobody should accuse bloggers of being social misfits or outcasts. I, for one, blog because this is the only way I can express opinions on many issues to a wider audience than is possible for me otherwise. I go to blogs to guage the pulse on issues that is relevant to me and my beliefs and to give my two cents on issues Iam familiar with. Like civility in blogs but can quickly adapt to the mood of abusive bloggers though I use sarcasm coupled with facts as a weapon.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003623.php">http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003623.php</a></p>
March 5th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Blog on Tololy, Blog on!</p>
<p>We, really, knew that!</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing, and okbal el 100 years of blogging :)</p>