Blogging boosts your social life: research : "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."
I don't see blogging the same as MySpace et al. I see social networking as different and I think the article tends to blend the two. Blogging has a different purpose and function. MySpace et al will increase your social contacts but it isn't always good. Blogging increases your capacity to be in contact with the world and if you are a specialist blogger it will increase your contact with like minded people. I know a lot more because I blog and I have made some good blog friends. Could I now live without blogging? Yes. Would it bother me? No. I do acknowledge though that blogging can give you some really powerful support that can touch your heart and mean something very important to you. It cannot be replicated.
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