Why do you blog?
Anna Kushnir
Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:49 UTC
What are the underpinnings of our blogging community? Why do we take the time to sit and write about science in a public forum? What are the rewards?
Why do you blog?
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I did find scientific evidence for the reasons why we blog: Distress, Coping, and Blogging: Comparing New Myspace Users by Their Intention to Blog. Intending bloggers scored higher in the psychological distress scores and scored lower on the social integration scores. Blogging as coping mechanism, wonderful. This somehow relates to Anna’s post on Social Science from yesterday.
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This sounds familiar, Martin. Part of cognitive therapy is to suggest people undertaking a course start and keep a diary for various reasons, one of them being creativity but there are others — and I think an online diary has so much more potential, in the sense of the interactivity of like-minded souls. I have a very good essay somewhere on “introverts” which sums up the psychology of blogging very well, to my mind.
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I found a forum on this website where everyone was supposed to present his own blog. So I tried it out and after two weeks I still like blogging. Here is my blog
I guess I like it because it can be non-serious as well as experimental. I do not have to think things over as in a scientific statement. I can also use it as my own diary of what I find in the net. Also quite interesting: I can meet new people this way and some were already very valuable!
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Hi Martin and Maxine,
having been a therapist I am skeptical about approaching social phenomena as unintentional therapy. This promotes a view that things are not normal in the first place. This may lead to a tendency to see neurosis and pathology everywhere. Klaus Dörner wrote a remarkable book “Die Gesundheitsfalle” ( Health Trap ) which points out the consequences for a health system in terms of costs etc. if over-diagnosing happens.
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Interesting, Hans, but I don’t think this is relevant to what I wrote, which was a different point.
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Where did I miss your point?
Maxine: “This sounds familiar, Martin. Part of cognitive therapy is to suggest people undertaking a course start and keep a diary for various reasons, one of them being creativity but there are others.”
By adressing your remark as refering to *un*intentional therapy? The suggestion of diaries in therapy ( in general ) is well intended, no doubt about that.
Anyway I did not mean to deny the healthy aspects of blogging.
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Hi Hans, I did not intend my comment to mean anything other than the fact that part of cognitive behavioural therapy is to suggest that clients start a diary, and that this has some similarities to blogging.
I think you have extrapolated my comment well beyond what I intended, or have any expertise to discuss. -
Here is that Essay on introverts, by Jonathan Rauch.
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