Blogging; it’s better than Prozac:

According to a new study by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne who were looking into the psychological benefits of blogging, bloggers tend to feel a greater sense of connectedness to a particular community, and feel that they have a larger social support system behind them compared with those who do not blog.

Well, they never asked me, but I’m here to testify.

For one example – I don’t know how I’d have gotten through 2003, with its unemployment and other difficulties, had I not had this blog.   

Viewed in this light, blogging could be prescribed as a potentially cheaper (and drugs-free) way to help people overcome a feeling of isolation.

True.  Indeed, given some of the stalker-like behavior you can encounter out there, it can make you long for isolation…

Blogging has been dismissed as a  narcissistic pursuit…

…but only by the talentless and stupid.

Am I being tongue-in-cheek? 

Discuss!

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