posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 29

34 signs you may be a blogging addict and may need to seek help ASAP:

1. When nothing exciting happens to you for a long time, you force yourself to freewrite and see what spews out from it (like today).
2. You scratch yourself raw in your bed half the night thinking of a post to write.
3. You check for grammar, spelling errors one hundred and one times before, during and after posting a post. You throw a fit when you’ve missed a period #(@*$#@(!!!
4. You sign up for Stat Counter just so you can monitor your visitor’s every move - where they come from, how they got here, where they’re going next, how long they stayed, what they clicked on etc. You almost feel like you could join the FBI.
5. You can’t wipe that big Willy Wonka smile off your face every time someone posts a comment on your blog.
6. You jump up and down like you’ve just won a million bucks when comments seem to come on a roll.
7. You get a really stronge urge to hug and kiss anyone who posts a nice compliment on your blog.
8. You want to become friends with every single person who visits and comments on your blog.
9. You call your blog acquaintances ‘friends’ because you have few, if any, real-life friends.
10. You try to post a comment on everyone’s blogs at least once a day.
11. Your bookmarked blogs make up 99.9% of your internet bookmarks.
12. You cancel your Netflix subscription because you don’t have any free time for movies anymore. Besides, blogs seem more interesting than movies.
13. On days when you’re hanging out with your significant other, you sneak out every half hour to check for new comments, even when you know you’re not going to get any.
14. Before you discovered the feed reader (today), you visited everyone’s blogs at least three times a day.
15. You’ve stalked the blogs of the people on your ‘blog friends’ list and have abused the poor F5 button more than you should have.
16. You got frustrated and impatient when your favorite bloggers weren’t posting anything for more than two days. You almost felt compelled to write them a note begging them to write something, <em>anything</em>.
17. You don’t look forward to weekends as much because weekends are downtime for blogging. Everyone seems to have a weekend planned except you.
18. You don’t seem to understand that unlike you, people have a life.
19. You get so caught up with other people’s lives that you start caring more about their well-being than yours.
20. You find yourself sniffling and reaching for a tissue when you read a sad post.
21. You find yourself laughing like you’re the only one in the building when you read a funny post.
22. You put off going to the bathroom so you can blog longer, even if you <em>really </em>have to go. You let out stinky farts instead to buy yourself some time.
23. You eat breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner while reading blogs. Sometimes you forget to eat because you’re too busy reading blogs.
24. You click on everything everywhere you go in the blogosphere. Your click speed has become wicked and you take pride in it.
25. You have mastered the art of blog hopping and blog hogging.
26. When you finally get yourself a feed reader and somehow figure out how to use it, you stay on standby and abuse the r button until it becomes stuck and you realize you might have to get a new keyboard soon. Hitting at it harder won’t help, but that doesn’t seem to stop you.
27. Your list of feeds rivals the length of the Nile River.
28. When you’re feeling lonely and have read every blog you can think of that day, you run a blog google search for “lonely.”
29. When you’re bored, you run a blog google search for “poop” wondering how high your blog will rank.
30. When people ask you if you have any hobbies, without thinking you blurt out ‘Blogging!’ and then you stop there, suddenly realizing that you’ve got no other hobbies, so you quickly change the topic of the conversation.
31. You are ready to devote most of your waking life in front of that computer screen, Monday through Sunday, 365 days a year, including Christmas and Thanksgiving, in sickness and in health, till death do you part.
32. Blogging starts creeping up in your dreams more and more until it consumes you completely day and night.
33. You get carpal tunnel syndrome and migraine headaches from spending so much time at the computer, but you don’t care. Blogging is the Love of your life.
34. When something wild happens to you that you know might be worth blogging about, you get totally psyched and start writing your post in your head until you get near a computer.

About the Author

Cinthia is a 20-something belly dancer wanna-be. She splits her free time belly dancing, blogging, websurfing and watching Dancing with the Stars.