If the Discovery Channel says it, it must be true.
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.
That's via a Swinburne University study that asked 600 MySpace users, some bloggers and some anti-bloggers, how their friendships, general health, and social statuses are doing them.
Bloggers reported a greater sense of belonging to a group of like-minded people and feeling more confident they could rely on others for help.
All respondents, whether or not they blogged, reported feeling less anxious, depressed and stressed after two months of online social networking.
We, too, are feeling less anxious, depressed, and stressed out after losing at Scrabulous, getting asked which type of wife we'll be via Facebook apps, having our tickets to see "Semi-Pro" broadcast in our news feeds, and getting caught cheating by writing on our ex's Fun Wall. Yep, much less stressed.
[Photo: Joe Chahwahn, via "The Naked Blogger..."]
[Link: Blogging's Good For Your Health]