10 Ways to Know if You are a Blogaholic
As you probably already know I’m a self confessed blogaholic. Not that confession has done much for my soul so I thought it might be helpful if I made a list of my symptoms.
I’m certain that I’m not the only blogaholic out there so when you read this list be honest and let me know if anything strikes a chord with you. Or perhaps you could add something more to the list? After all, misery really does love company.
It should be fun so here goes:
1. Within a few minutes of publishing a post you are already checking for new comments and your traffic stats. You are extremely disappointed that nothing has changed so you check back again a few minutes later (just to be sure). Damn!
2. The last thing that you do before going to bed and kissing your soul mate goodnight is to check for any comments on your blog. Afterwards your mate reminds you that you forgot to kiss him or her goodnight.
3. The first thing that you do when you get up in the morning (even before putting your socks on and making the coffee) is to see if there are any new comments since you last checked your blog the night before.
4. If you are away from your computer for more than a few minutes you find yourself suffering from symptoms of withdrawal. You are getting the shakes and your fingers start twitching nervously. You tell your doctor that you are worried you may be suffering from early-onset of parkinsons disease, but then you realize you have just been away from your blog too long and need a quick fix… and all is well again. Ahhh!
5. Your sense of reality becomes so distorted that you can no longer distinguish from the virtual and the real worlds. So much so that you find yourself putting more emphasis on developing your virtual relationships and neglecting your real world friends, your family, your job…
6. You are so into your blog that you forgot to pay the rent and your credit card bill, there’s no food in the fridge and the hydro has been turned off. But you don’t care because you have a computer battery backup, and if that goes you have a generator rigged up. No worries.
7. When your computer is sick and in the shop you feel that you have no life. You mope around the house and have a craving for keyboarding that just won’t go away. So you call one of your real world friends that you have been neglecting and ask to borrow theirs. You promise to send them an email when you have the time.
8. Before leaving the house you make certain that you have your laptop, your PDA, your cell phone and an internet connection. A few minutes later you get a call from your spouse reminding you that you forgot her and the kids who are still waiting at the door.
9. You complain the next day that you didn’t get enough sleep, but you have no compunction to staying up all night working on your template. How time flies.
10. You neglect yourself to the point you realize you haven’t yet showered, shaved or eaten. Nature is calling you to the bathroom but you put it off because you have to get all those thoughts down on your keyboard. Finally you’re finished and you run like hell to the bathroom only to find it is already occupied. Sigh! So you run right back to the ‘puter and thus continues the cycle.
If you find yourself relating to any of the above please get professional help immediately, and welcome to the club!
* This article has been updated since the original posting 2005
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Heh, I think I need help real fast! Thanks for the great post. I sure can relate.
So true. So true.
::shakes head and walks off to check his webstats::
This is a Bloke Classic !!
#11 - You get upset when you read a post that The Bloke wrote that you were thinking of, but, too busy to type up. Damn that Bloke ! LOL
It’s comforting to know that I’m not the only neurotic.
i think i’m one of the blogaholic. every morning when i woke up from my bed, i will check if there is any comments on my site.
and i can say that almost of the time when i in my room, i will seat on my chair and start surfing the net and blog.
Wow. Did you ever nail it. Especially #5. I spend so much time on my blog that I’ve neglected all my friends (if they’re still there).
#11: you introduce yourself by your blog handle, not your real name…
OUCH!
#12: Dear Anonymous - you comment so often that you forgot your name.
Touché
Bloke, you’ve found your voice again. Per aspera ad astra!
Re: commenting. This is probably the World Record of (real) comments (by the “real” people, no bots) to one posting: 20124 comments. The posting (in the Finnish blog called Pinseri) was about Harry Potter, naturally…
Thanks Lurker. Only a couple thousand more to go. No problem.
This would be a very funny post if it weren’t right on the mark! I have shown signs of needing a 12 step program.
Hi gem. Since my illness I’m really trying to cut back on my blog intake. Some days I win, and some days I don’t.
I need a mentor. Any takers?
This is funny. Number 9 is totally me.
Count yourself lucky Paula. All 10 relate to me.
Hello sir,
I like everything about this post and of course your other posts too.
I mentioned about your blog in two places. Here are the permalink.
http://blogavenues.blogspot.com/2007/06/ways-to-check-your-passion-for-blogging.html
http://bloggerparty.com/forget_about_adsense
Cheers and wishes.
Thanks Malathy and so glad that you liked it.
lol, that was funny….
*sobs* and so true too, I’m pretty dissipointed at my total lack of comments :p theres about 60-80 people who read my recent articles but no comments on any of them =/
I even encouraged readers to the point of hinting at a prize for the winner… but i guess that hint went unnoticed *sigh*
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Please don’t make me admit how many of these apply to me. To give you some indication, my ISP went down last weekend for 8 hours and so I dealt with it the only way I could. I fired up my PDA and viewed my blog on a 3×4 inch screen. Then I remembered I get 4 hours of free internet access through my employer, but it’s dial-up. DIAL-UP! The horror! But I did it anyway so I could stay in touch with the blog and do other bloggy things.
So is there a 12-step program for people like me or am I hopeless?
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I’m afraid the medical profession hasn’t yet caught on so you’re on your own there girl. Or perhaps we could start a new chapter of Blogaholics Anonymous? YEAH! Works for me.
Blog Bloke reply on June 18th, 2008 4:40 pm:
Oops. I’m a little bit blogaholic
i think 6/10.
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I just submitted this to Digg. You’re such a talented blogger, and I’m hoping that more bloggers have the opportunity to read ya! And oh yes, I identify…as a matter of fact, I made my own blog confession today. :-)))
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Blog confessions … hmm, maybe we can turn this into a religious sort of thing. Thanks so much for the digg sweety.
Blog Bloke reply on June 18th, 2008 11:27 pm:
For better or worse, 2 & 3 = email, not blogging.
4 depends on why I’m away, but yea 9 x outa 10 it ain’t good LOL.
5 isn’t really funny if you’ve actually been called on it
6 - silly man, you’re looking at it all wrong! We blog to make sure those things DONT happen! LOL….well we hope to make money anyway.
7 - OMG! I FREAKED OUT one time when my CHAIR broke and I didn’t know if I would be able to compute. LMAO!
9 & 10 - shamefully me as well lol
Ya know, i don’t think a Bloggers Anonymous would work at all…it would just turn into a networking get-together!
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“I don’t think a Bloggers Anonymous would work at all…it would just turn into a networking get-together!”
Think of it as a social networking thing
Exactly right…throwing all the help applications out the window LOL
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If that should happen what on earth would all the pro splogger’s write about? Original content? God forbid!
Blog Bloke reply on June 21st, 2008 4:52 pm:
Dennis Edell reply on June 21st, 2008 4:21 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on June 21st, 2008 2:33 pm:
Ahh good question! Think of pro-sploggers at a BA meeting, like nosy non-drinkers at an AA meeting…just something to talk about later…
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..7 Turbo Writing Tips
Then maybe we should call it the Gabosphere? Just wondering
Blog Bloke reply on June 21st, 2008 5:35 pm:
Good one! I get credit for part of the brainstorming team
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..7 Turbo Writing Tips
Your check is in the mail.
Blog Bloke reply on June 21st, 2008 6:31 pm:
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