Blogging The Recession

Well, that’s what we’re doing here, right? (Though we certainly hope to still be around when the economy picks up..)

But freelance writer Amanda Hirsch picks up on a trend in this current recession: first-person recession blogging.

Now, we’re a nation of bloggers and oversharers, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that Americans are also blogging about being unemployed, but it does mark a shift in the zeitgeist. In the Great Depression, which we’re always told the Great Recession is almost as bad as, we didn’t “air our dirty laundry,” oh no.

Former Current TV staffer Anthony Ferraro found that getting laid off helped him get rid of stress — and debt.

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