Social Media Research is a Matter of Personal Interest

 

I believe that social media has helped me healing, though I don’t know how to measure it.
Scott Husband notes a study finding a correlation between the size of some areas of the brain and the use of
Facebook on his blog: http://thebrainexplained.com/facebook-grows-your-brain/

I remember choosing to join Facebook towards the end of my Communications Therapy. I had felt like I had come so far in this therapy. I was driven to remain mindful for the rest of my life of consciously including more nouns, instead of pronouns, and the 5Ws. Facebook gave me a place to go to try to comment.

When the schedules of my friends couldn’t allow them to stop over to visit me, and transportation was difficult for me to arrange, and I was tired from a medical crisis, I wasn’t as isolated, because I could log on to touch-base through social media.

I guess this is my thinking on the supportive role of social media and the Internet in general in my healing thus far I was very excited to come across this post. Thanks, Scott!