Long Tail Epistemology

Researchers James Baker and Professor Susan Moore have written two papers investigating the psychological benefits of blogging:

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 Australian research has found.

But people that was not blogging at this time but intended to, or wanted to blog:

were less satisfied with their friendships and they felt less socially integrated, they didn’t feel as much part of a community as the people who weren’t interested in blogging

source: Blogging boosts your social life: research - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I am not sure what to read out of this. The second group sounds like the traditional folks who writes as some kind of Catharsis. Blogging makes writing easier, but i am not sure that blogging as a specific activity, not writing in general, is the right subject of these peoples urges. The result sounds rather planted. But still, the results are interesting.