Do I have a blogging addiction? I don’t believe most of the media hype over “internet addiction” but then I’ve been up for like an hour (slightly less at the time of writing) and this will be my second blog post. And I’m hopfully going to do those two posts I mentioned earlier as well as anything else that happens today. That’s a lot of posts.
Still I came across a post on Footsteps in the Mirror which has a list of signs and I fit into only a few of the criteria (3 sort of, 12, 13, 14 to a degree, 16, 21 to a lesser degree, 23, 24 and 30). So out of 30 signs, that’s not too bad. I think.
The most worrying would probably be 3…
The existing blogosphere niche knows more about your own life than the entire real world friends and family combined.
Although I say sort of as I’m not sure anyone reads my blog enough to have developed this kind of knowledge. But the point is, if someone did read every post I made, they would probably have more of an insight into my lives than my parents do. Don’t get me wrong, it would be a close match. But on topics such as how I’m feeling, what I’m thinking and indeed what I’ve done at uni, the blog readers would come out on top.
I also feel like recently my posts have become more in depth. I used to make loads of one paragraph posts and these still account for much of my blog but there are plenty of examples in recent times of posts of similar length to this one. Maybe it’s just me and they were always like that. Back when I was blogging on Nerd Federation (up till about July 2005 before I transferred to this blog) almost all my posts were a uniform 4 paragraphs long.
The other sign that could suggest an addiction is the fact I am still going. I started rapidly blogging in January. Before that I would often blog but not several times per day, every day. I figured it was like a revivial of when I first got my blog back on Nerd Fed and it was new and exciting so I often would blog 2 or 3 times per day. Still, here we are 3 months later and I’m still blogging as frequently and if anything it should have died down faster because there was no real catalyst for me to start blogging so frequently in January, at least that I know of.
I went over to Dictionary.com to get an official definition and found…
1.
1. Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance: a drug used in the treatment of heroin addiction.
2. An instance of this: a person with multiple chemical addictions.
2.
1. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
2. An instance of this: had an addiction for fast cars.
I guess I’m kind of falling in the middle really. I don’t think I have a physiological compulsion to blog although I really do like to get things of my chest. Is this really any different to people keeping diaries though? It just happens to be public. I’ve always looked at my blogging the same way I look at my music. I’m going to write what I think sounds good and what I want to listen to and if other people like it also, well that’s an added bonus.
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