Anderson‐Butcher et al. (2010) researched the positive and negative developmental
effects of adolescent blog use. They used a sample of 100 teens that posted blogs on xanga.
The researchers coded blogs from the past thirty days from each user for geographic
location, drug use, the Teacher Referral Checklist, the Search Institute’s developmental assets
framework, and community building. They used three coders in order to ensure reliability
of their data. The data displayed that blogs like other forms of online social networking was
primarily used by teens for community building. Most often blogs were used to foster and