http://usableworld.com.au/2008/09/30/blogging-changes-lives/ Live Life Easier Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://usableworld.com.au/2008/09/30/blogging-changes-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-117 It’s all about you - Making the most of socializing online | UsableWorld - James Breeze's Blog Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:18:04 +0000 http://usableworld.com.au/?p=647#comment-117 [...] MySpace has been shown to have similar effects.  A short article titled Blogging as a Social Tool: A Psychosocial Examination of the Effects of Blogging by James R. Baker, Susan M. Moore, December 2008 suggested that blogging helps people feel like they have a stronger social support network, possibly because blogging helps a person gain some insight, feedback or perspective on their life and as John M Grohol says ‘Take the results with a grain of salt, however, as 57% of the original participants at the initial time of the first set of measures did not complete the measures two months later (possibly skewing the results of the data). The researchers also did not differentiate successful, frequent bloggers from those who may have started a blog and posted only one entry.’ He even writes about that fact blogging might even make you happier!  It certainly makes me happy, as I mentioned in a post last year! [...] [...] MySpace has been shown to have similar effects.  A short article titled Blogging as a Social Tool: A Psychosocial Examination of the Effects of Blogging by James R. Baker, Susan M. Moore, December 2008 suggested that blogging helps people feel like they have a stronger social support network, possibly because blogging helps a person gain some insight, feedback or perspective on their life and as John M Grohol says ‘Take the results with a grain of salt, however, as 57% of the original participants at the initial time of the first set of measures did not complete the measures two months later (possibly skewing the results of the data). The researchers also did not differentiate successful, frequent bloggers from those who may have started a blog and posted only one entry.’ He even writes about that fact blogging might even make you happier!  It certainly makes me happy, as I mentioned in a post last year! [...]

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