Is Blogging Addictive?
Perhaps we need another survey, if one has not been conducted already, to find out if blogging is indeed addictive.
I think it is. Addictive, I mean.
Ever since I took up active blogging, I have found myself evaluating the bloggability index of everything I see or read.
Hey, I just coined a new term. I love coining new terms. Considering this is the first sensible new term I’ve coined in a long while.
So, the Bloggability Index of a person/ idea/ event/ news item is the extent to which the said person/idea/event/news item lends itself to being blogged about. Thus, a survey on food and moods has about a 90% BI (come on now, you need an abbreviation; what’s the point of coining a new term and not making an abbreviation for it?), as evidenced by my previous post.
And I just ran a search on Google to see if anyone else has already come up with this nugget. Looks like it is all mine, copyrighted as of this instant. Maybe I should put a little © next to it. Bloggability Index © - looks rather nice, doesn’t it?
Thus, every time I pick up the newspaper or travel in the train to work, or browse through the net randomly or enter into a conversation, I find myself mentally calculating its BI.
With the ©. Mustn’t forget the ©.
I wonder if this is how the press people think. Maybe they look for a story in everything too!
Be that as it may, I am totally controlled by blogs now. I am hooked on to them, even addicted to them, you might say. I have to blog…about something…anything. I don’t feel a day is complete if I haven’t blogged.
If things get any worse, I’d probably start having withdrawal symptoms, I think. And would have to get into a blogger rehab centre for a blog detox program! I’m sure they have it somewhere.
Mostly in the US. That is where these things get started.
They’ll probably have a pledge too, and begin their sessions with it - “I am a sane human being, not a mindless blogging machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. I can live without blogging. Blogs are nice but not a must.”
I would probably have to stand up and share my testimony, with other blogaholics.
Me: Hello, my name is Muse
Them: Hello, Muse
Me: It has been a whole week now since I touched a blog. I have not even read a blog in seven days.
Most of Them: Oooh! You are an inspiration to us all, mate!
Some of Them: Amen
Me: But it has been difficult.
Them, nodding their heads sympathetically: We understand, mate. The first week is always difficult. But you’ll get used to it.
Me: No, you don’t understand… I have to blog…I have to…
Them: Intervention! Remember, Muse, Blogs are nice, but not a must.
Me: Just one blog… one little blog…one tiny little ten–liner blog…it will be my last one, I promise
Them: Remember the steps, mate, you can’t give in now
Me: No, I cannot…but I must blog…must…blog
And that's probably when they would all have to band together and physically hold me back from reaching for the nearest computer.
Boy, blogs are addictive!
I think it is. Addictive, I mean.
Ever since I took up active blogging, I have found myself evaluating the bloggability index of everything I see or read.
Hey, I just coined a new term. I love coining new terms. Considering this is the first sensible new term I’ve coined in a long while.
So, the Bloggability Index of a person/ idea/ event/ news item is the extent to which the said person/idea/event/news item lends itself to being blogged about. Thus, a survey on food and moods has about a 90% BI (come on now, you need an abbreviation; what’s the point of coining a new term and not making an abbreviation for it?), as evidenced by my previous post.
And I just ran a search on Google to see if anyone else has already come up with this nugget. Looks like it is all mine, copyrighted as of this instant. Maybe I should put a little © next to it. Bloggability Index © - looks rather nice, doesn’t it?
Thus, every time I pick up the newspaper or travel in the train to work, or browse through the net randomly or enter into a conversation, I find myself mentally calculating its BI.
With the ©. Mustn’t forget the ©.
I wonder if this is how the press people think. Maybe they look for a story in everything too!
Be that as it may, I am totally controlled by blogs now. I am hooked on to them, even addicted to them, you might say. I have to blog…about something…anything. I don’t feel a day is complete if I haven’t blogged.
If things get any worse, I’d probably start having withdrawal symptoms, I think. And would have to get into a blogger rehab centre for a blog detox program! I’m sure they have it somewhere.
Mostly in the US. That is where these things get started.
They’ll probably have a pledge too, and begin their sessions with it - “I am a sane human being, not a mindless blogging machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. I can live without blogging. Blogs are nice but not a must.”
I would probably have to stand up and share my testimony, with other blogaholics.
Me: Hello, my name is Muse
Them: Hello, Muse
Me: It has been a whole week now since I touched a blog. I have not even read a blog in seven days.
Most of Them: Oooh! You are an inspiration to us all, mate!
Some of Them: Amen
Me: But it has been difficult.
Them, nodding their heads sympathetically: We understand, mate. The first week is always difficult. But you’ll get used to it.
Me: No, you don’t understand… I have to blog…I have to…
Them: Intervention! Remember, Muse, Blogs are nice, but not a must.
Me: Just one blog… one little blog…one tiny little ten–liner blog…it will be my last one, I promise
Them: Remember the steps, mate, you can’t give in now
Me: No, I cannot…but I must blog…must…blog
And that's probably when they would all have to band together and physically hold me back from reaching for the nearest computer.
Boy, blogs are addictive!
@tamizhan:
Aha! So I am not alone! Wonder how many more such addicts exist out there!!!
Posted by
Satchitananda Sai |
1:40 PM
dude dude
hit the nail on the head..
damm blogging is addictive..i dont have the time to do it everyday but any weekend i dont blog i feel so incomplete and lost..
same with reading blogs...
btw have u read leave it to psmith by wodehouse..awesome it is..
Posted by
Sameera |
4:38 AM
I prefer to see blogging as something that isn't addictive. Instead to make myself feel better, I like to say that I'm returning to something that I do naturally. I've always scribbled down observations and realisations about life that I liked the sound of. Except now I do it on a blog so that what I write doesn't get lost so easily. Is this denial?
Posted by
ekantha |
5:56 PM
Well, ekantha, at least you've recognized it as being denial! That is the first step...to recognize we have a problem!
LOL
Posted by
Satchitananda Sai |
10:00 AM
Thankfully I don't blog... Once upon a time, not long ago I used to spend most of my time reading blogs... it was getting so addictive that I couldn't get any work done. So I had to stop it completely.... And now you are getting me back into the habit!
Posted by
Anonymous |
6:52 PM