Blogging As A Form Of Therapy

wellington writes "According to an AOL survey, blogs are more likely to deal with personal matters than politics or current events, and nearly 50% of bloggers see the activity as a form of therapy."

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Writing in blogs as therapy.

[grub]

Tue, Sept 20, 2005
Urge to kill growing.
Must paint town red with blood.
Sun is rising.
Hear birds singing.
Looking nice outside.
Ahh. just what I needed!
What a great day, better go to work!

Wed, Sept 21, 2005
Meter reader coming today.
Sweet flesh in my slow cooker.
Bread in breadmaker smells good.
Too good to taint with meter reader.
Mmm. Maybe I'll go to the store for some blueberry jam.
And a nice walk through the park while I'm at it!
What an awesome day!

Thur, Sept 22, 2005
They have no idea I'm watching them.
They're nothing more than scum to me.
To be decimated like germs.
Hrm.. hey Slashdot's new CSS looks nice!
Wait... argh! Still buggy!
Can't they do anything right?!
Must.. not.. hehe heh ehhhhhhh...
Today is the day I unleash my wrath
and appease my Dark Master...

Maddox had it right.

[HugePedlar]

When he wrote this:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish

Like Microsoft Insider Bloggers?

[ackthpt]

Those who know what the problem is are troublemakers, organizations don't like them and tend to re-org them into a place where they (a) will have little impact with their critiques OR (b) will fail and thus can be swept out the door during the first round of layoffs.

There was a chart on the office wall about 25 years ago which went:

Project Life Cycle

• 1. Open acceptance
• 2. Wild enthusiasm
• 3. Implementation problems
• 4. Disillusionment
• 5. Total confusion
• 6. Search for the guilty
• 7. Punishment of the innocent
• 8. Promotion of non-participants

I used to think it was funny, but years of work in various shops have taught me this is the grim truth. In effect the steps can be found within Microsoft, the first two where during the heady successes of the early days of gobbling up easily taken markets. Step 3 are the growing pains of trying to forge headway into existing markets against established competitors also the rapid pace of virii and worms stripping the veneer of the solid image projected to businesses. Step 4 is where the management and employees don't see the problems with the same eyes. Step 5 is the big JARBO reorg over Vista rollout problems. Steps 6 and 7 are Microsoft hunting down their own unhappy employees and sacking them for the failures of management. Step 8 is when complete outsiders from General Mills, Glaxo, Smith & Wesson and Toro come in and head up departments, over experienced insiders.

I don't work for Microsoft. BTW I don't work for Microsoft.. Uh, Steve, unhand my ch

[NO CARRIER]

Whaaa??

[nothingx]

You mean to tell me the teen girl world doesn't revolve around politics or current events? Inconceivable!

Wow!

[Stanistani]

Today is the bestest day!

How do I post a picture of my cat here?

Many are a form of therapy for me.

[ChePibe]

I read lots of blogs, and as I read them I often think to myself:

1) Thank goodness my life is interesting and does not revolve around my cat (I like cats as much as the next man, but I don't replace the human beings in my life with fuzzballs).

2) Thank goodness I am no longer a hormone crazed teenager who is in love one moment and ready to commit suicide at the next (ah, those were the good old days...).

3) Thank goodness I have something better to do than cook up conspiracy theories all day long (if I read one more UFO blog or another blogger claiming to be a "Spook, I'll go balistic).

4) Thank goodness I have an occupation (while there are professional bloggers, those that post nothing more than rants about the bad employment market and whine about it all day long rather than look for work are not among them).

So... yeah. Blogs are theraputic. Often times, they can make me feel so much better about myself.

(the above is sarcasm and, obviously, doesn't refer to all blogs... so let's dispense with the flaming)