Social media can make you happy…


	Social media can make you happy…

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/46952dad-523f-4079-9884-1fc7f8771b65/E66BA10B-5706-46B9-A356-ACADE87810F3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/" href="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/" style="font-size: 11px;">socialmedia.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/"><H2><A title="Social media can make you happy…" rel="bookmark" href="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/" linkindex="73">Social media can make you happy…</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/"><P>I <A href="http://twitter.com/johnbreslin/statuses/832159477" linkindex="74">posted a message</A> on Twitter about half an hour ago saying that I was feeling down.  I refrained from saying I was depressed as I really didn’t want to alarm anyone and I knew it wasn’t serious, but almost immediately I had four messages asking what was up (both <A href="http://twitter.com/jamesgallagher/statuses/832161134" linkindex="75">publicly</A> <A href="http://twitter.com/mirka23/statuses/832182397" linkindex="76">and</A> privately on Twitter and one via Skype).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/">Sometimes very small annoyances can build up to something that feels greater and can lead to you just “feeling down”.  Some idiot cut down the bushes behind our house at lunchtime (violating our privacy and savaging the ivy from our side of the wall in the process) without asking or thinking about the effect; I got a rejection letter for something I had applied for; I’m despairing at further <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Boards.ie" linkindex="77">attempts</A> to have our <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards.ie" linkindex="78">boards.ie Wikipedia article</A> deleted by disgruntled users; I have a few too many things “to do” at work; and, yes, it is a bit drizzly today</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/">amazed at the rapid response </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://socialmedia.net/2008/06/11/social-media-can-make-you-happy/">realised (once again) the power of social media to get support </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E66BA10B-5706-46B9-A356-ACADE87810F3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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