At Bloggers Anonymous—we normally frown upon spreading propaganda that minimizes the serious nature of our cause. However, in the name of education and awareness, we would like to point to the this juvenile “Top 10” list of “symptoms” which indicate you may be a addicted to blogging. We will not reveal the authors as to not credit them in any way. Please be aware that this ignorance is out there—and defeating the spirit of our cause.
10. You check your blog stats a LOT. You occasionally get up in the middle of the night and sneak a peak.
9. Your significant other suspects you are having an affair with your blog. Even when you’re alone with your special person, you do find yourself thinking what your blog might be doing right then…
8. You “mental blog” while driving or on the train, and sometimes even when you are alone in the shower.
7. You filter everything through your post-writing. You can’t watch a movie, see a play, read an article, or share a sweet moment with your child without thinking of whether it’s blog-worthy.
6. You suffer from “blog envy” when another blogger posts something juicy before you do. You suffer “comment envy” when said post gets 40-something comments – the jerk!
5. You “binge blog” 3 or 4 posts at once—only to feel guilty and empty afterward.
4. You ditched all your real friends for blog friends, because, well, “they understand.” You bypass Bowling Alone at the bookstore (who really cares?) while you reach for Naked Conversations.
3. You think, “I can stop at any time.”
2. Your lunch hour has become your “blog hour.” You keep a few posts tucked in your desk in case you need them during the day.
1. After 5 minutes of meeting someone really interesting you ask, “So - do you blog?”
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Posted by: As | February 16, 2007 at 01:53 PM
I linked to your list because I found it funny and a little embarrassing in the right kind of way. I see you have given up on this blog--does this mean that your BA meetings have worked?
Posted by: sarala | January 22, 2007 at 09:27 PM
I'm trying to overcome a serious blog addiction. I want blogging to become a thing I do to share pictures with my "real-life" friends that now live at a distance because of college, and to publish meaningful articles. Not something I do 3-4 times a day every time I'm irritated. But I've always been known to be a compulsive writer, I'm just trying to change where and how I do it.
Currently, I'm trying very, very hard to stop in favor of going back to paper-journals.
Posted by: Sarah | January 11, 2007 at 01:17 PM
Hi my name is Sujan Patel and I'm a blog addict. Haha. I also wrote a "10 signs your addicted to blogging"
Posted by: Sujan Patel | December 22, 2006 at 12:38 PM
In my travels through cyberspace, I have noticed blog after blog discussing “Internet addiction” and “blog addiction.” Today, however, I read about a blog-related issue known as “blog depression.” Quite honestly, I thought that the feeling of “pressure” and “anxiety” I had been experiencing about keeping up with my three blogs was unique to me.
After thinking about things for a while, however, it has become apparent to me that many bloggers “out there” must be experiencing some of the same negative feelings about their blogs that eventually stopped me from keeping up with my posts.
What can a person do who experiences “blog depression”? Among other things, take a break and “go outside.” If you think that this is a rather simplistic suggestion, please continue reading.
I remember reading about a person who complained to his therapist about being depressed and “stuck in a rut” for many years. After listening to her patient ramble on for weeks about his drab and unexciting existence, it came time for the therapist to take a stand and advise her patient what to do. On the day of reckoning, the therapist calmly smiled at her patient and said: “you need to get some sleep and get out in the sun once in a while.” Upon hearing this, the patient understandably felt “cheated” with such a “simple solution.”
The point: sometimes we make things so complex that we become caught in a cycle of “paralysis by analysis.” In a different scenario, maybe the patient described above, after years of psychoanalysis, finally “understood” why he had been depressed and “stuck in a rut. And maybe based on this “insight” he started to live his life more honestly, more fully, and with more joy. On the other hand, this same patient might have viewed his world in an entirely different way with a good night’s sleep and by spending some quality time outside in the sun.
If you have to, take a break from your blog, “go outside,” and enjoy life.
I think we have to somehow learn how to balance our online lives with our lives outside of cyberspace. Sadly, many people engrossed with the Internet haven’t learned this and have, as a result, become so enamored with their online activities that their lives, especially their relationships, have become dysfunctional.
DenMan7
http://www.About-Alcohol.com
Posted by: Denny | December 09, 2006 at 06:21 PM
Even though your "Mock 10" signs of blog addiction are meant to be funny (kind of like Letterman’s 10 ten Lists), believe it or not, there really seems to be a dependency called “blog addiction.”
Let me explain. I have recently started to complie a list of the different “addictions” I have been reading about on some of the blogs. So far I have enountered the following dependencies: drugs, alcohol, sex, porn, oil (as in petroleum), gambling, food, exercise, love, video games, comment addiction (i.e., checking the comments on one’s blog), window shopping, thrill seeking, yarn addiction (not a misprint!), Internet addiction, Technorati addiction, addiction to online gaming, information addiction, addiction to technology, and now blog addiction.
I just wanted to let you guys know about this :-)
DenMan7
http://www.About-Alcoholics-Anonymous.com
Posted by: Denny | December 07, 2006 at 11:39 PM
My name is Kelsey, and I am I blogaholic, but I'm okay with that.
I can realate wtih #1 the best. I always want to ask interesting people if they have a blog, and people I'd like to get to know better, but I try to wait more than five minutes before actually asking them. I wouldn't want them to think I was a blogging nerd, or something. ;)
-Kelsey
Posted by: Moe | December 06, 2006 at 03:15 PM
Oh, this is HILARIOUS..but really not so since I have ALL THE SYMPTOMS. I love the blogging during work one especially - that is what I do!!! Anyway, cool that others share my addiction :) I know I'm ill so why not enjoy it?
Posted by: Dana | August 16, 2006 at 10:08 PM
Egads, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry while ticking through your list.
How in the world did I process my thoughts before blogging?
I justify #10 by categorizing my stat checking as exercise, as I have to run up the stairs to look at my computer. I know I am over the edge when I have to sneak a peak in the middle of cooking dinner, just to see if I got one more incoming link, which would edge my Technorati ranking one inch closer to the 5,000.
My friends are afraid to share any juicy stories for fear of winding up on the front page of my blog the next day.
It is quite humorous to think of your 12 step program for blog addicts being held at a blog. That is about as good an idea as holding AA meetings at a bar or NA meetings in a crackhouse.
At least we have each other, eh?
My name is Pam, and I am a blog addict.
Posted by: Pamela Slim | July 20, 2006 at 12:36 AM
Where does sleeping in the recliner with your laptop rank?
Posted by: who? | July 11, 2006 at 09:36 PM
My names Matthew. I'm a blogaholic.
Posted by: Matthew Stibbe (Bad Language) | July 09, 2006 at 04:44 AM
I think I have a problem
Posted by: Pande | July 07, 2006 at 07:19 AM
Shit... i'm sooo addicted... and i'm french. Does it make it worse ?
Do you have a french antenna by any chance ?
Posted by: Tristan | July 04, 2006 at 04:09 PM
Funny. Some points were true for me.
Posted by: Philipp Lenssen | June 28, 2006 at 09:08 AM
I do numbers 8, 7, and 1.
I don't think I have a problem.
Is that OK?
Posted by: Religious Blogger | June 23, 2006 at 07:27 PM
I got about 7 out of 10, quite a heavy addictor now. God!
Posted by: Richard.H | June 22, 2006 at 12:19 PM
God! is there a cure??
I do all of'ehm... and more, much more....
is there a cure, although I don't want to be cured...
ps. I have added this post on my blog.. hope you do not mind. Of course I have also added three links to your blog so I am not copying... that's another symptom I think...
Cheers.
Posted by: Shaman Dandulla | June 12, 2006 at 05:19 PM
Good list. I´ve publish my own spanish translation.
Posted by: Enrique | June 12, 2006 at 09:26 AM
This is pretty good... Thanks. I've put a link up to this on my blog which covers new media...
Cheers...
Posted by: H.A.Page | June 10, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Bill,
Don't fight it. Trade your childhood friends for blog friends—they're more interesting anyway.
And if you get complaints about your performance on the job—tell them you have a "problem" and that you're getting help. Works every time.
Posted by: DA | June 07, 2006 at 08:18 PM
I'm in trouble. I have almost all of the 10 signs!!!
What do I do?
Posted by: Bill Hutchison | June 07, 2006 at 06:23 PM
Kathleen: Seriously? You exchanged vows via trackbacks? Now THAT is cool! Mack -- did you hear that?
Anyway -- you've got to let Yvonne DeVita (www.lipsticking.com) know....because if you read her BloggerStory (from our BFF Toby Bloomberg) I think she could use some how-to advice!
http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/bloggerstories/2006/06/blogger_stories.html
Posted by: Ann Handley | June 07, 2006 at 05:42 PM
When is the next meeting? I obviously need the 12 step program bad!
Posted by: Lex | June 07, 2006 at 05:10 PM
Well there's hope for me yet! I'm only guilty of 10, 9, and 8!! (I CAN stop at anytime).
Great post!
Posted by: Ann Michael | June 07, 2006 at 04:12 PM