Blogging for Emotional Well Being

Blogs, sometimes referred to as online diaries, are an evolution of journal writing where people can self publish their feelings, engage in activism, build community, or share ideas (Tan, 2008). Blogs are posted on the World Wide Web using blogging platforms t...

Science, childhood I use to write a personal daily diary. In this personal weakness portal, I wrote small personal changes, habits, and life style. When I started understanding different views about life, then I realized this writing is nothing but personal notes, which I wrote as a memory of daily activities, later it become my guidelines to judge myself as a person.

Although Carr’s sources may be highly praised in their field or study, they are not experts in the effects the Internet has on our minds. Bloggers are often very opinionated and do not pose as reliable sources for information. The fact tha...

Writing, journaling or poem-making is a definite way to identify and cherish the essence of you… what you bring to the table and the creative concepts you have submerged somewhere within Writing brings clarity. Writing gives you the secret closet or dwelling place where you can safely sort out what you know and love about life and how that can be of service personally and to others. Bringing more value, increasing people’s perception of value and identifying places where you can increase the quality of an idea, event, product or service gives you fertile new territory for planting instead of pounding- for sowing seeds that can bring a bountiful new harvest into being. End this chapter by completing the Three “W’s” of

There are a lot of things that people do to relieve pain, stress and emotions, one of them being writing. Simply writing down their thoughts can be relieving to them and a healthy way to let out anything that they might not want to tell others. Things that influence a person’s writing varies from emotions and their personal experiences. However, these experiences can be hard for some people, which can result in a huge conflict in their writing. Although, sometimes it has a negative connotation, many times it does not necessarily mean that it changes a person 's perspective. Often people learn good things from bad experiences, to prevent others from happening to them as said by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her story “The Yellow Wallpaper” or

For many people, the purpose of journaling is a sort of catharsis. With pen on paper, they are able to work through problems and issues. These problems are overcome simply by allowing time to process these tribulations enough to form sentences about them. I too use writing for this purpose. However, I often do not allow writing to be the last step in my emotional eradication.

The marketplace demands that mainstream journalists do the moral thing, unless they would rather feel the viewers’ wrath in a sharp decrease of ratings. Amateur bloggers, on the other hand, do not have the fear of losing viewers. It’s the web, so what the heck right? This is a problem that needs addressing. Hengstler insists that “Technology has chan...

Memes have been an important part of the blogging world since at least 2001, when "Best Meme" first appeared as a category in The Bloggies, the annual Oscars of weblogging. The winner in the "Best Meme" category that year was "A Day Without Weblogs," which suggested that each December 1st, people use their weblogs to link to information and resources about AIDS, in memory of those who had died. "A Day Without Weblogs" had in fact begun with only fifty blogs in 1999, but by 2001, over 1,000 webloggers participated (Link and Think, 2003). The success of "A Day Without Weblogs" was one of the first demonstrations of the power and reach of the blogging community. The success of the project helped bring crucial attention to a serious issue, and mobilized many casual web surfers to donate time and money to the cause.

Stress is everywhere, one in eight Americans complain about being stressed. Thus, from stress people tend to get anxiety, depression, and feel unhappy with whatever situation is bringing them down. Writing as a form of therapy has been around much longer than we think. A lot of the time when reading poems or short stories we don’t even notice the flow of emotion that is vented through the piece of work. This has been said to be a huge stress reliever, by writing down your thoughts, and feelings. Due to this, people can sit back after reading their situation and look at it with a somewhat clear head. In Cangialosi’s article she states “Writing is not only a salve but often a tool that opens our minds and hearts to things that are deep inside

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