Working Away

Surfing’s no fun if you can’t tell people what you’ve found.
Blogging has become the new way of livelihood for many and fun for the idle ones. But there are also people for whom blogging has turned into an obsession instead of being a harmless hobby.
I am an internet addict! I can stare at google homepage when i don’t know what else to browse. The fact that I am reading this on a Sunday night (which still qualifies as a weekend) shows that I am an addict.:) .
You know that you are suffering from blogOmania or a severe case of blog addiction when
 :).. You want to blog about every minute of your life, even if it’s just about doing your daily chores.
# If your Internet gets disconnected even for a minute, you become anxious and worried. You start throwing tantrums and blame every single official who is responsible for the downtime.
# You take the comments on your blog far too seriously and irrationally.
# You feel good and relaxed about the recent article that you posted, but the feeling melts away quite fast as the time for the next article approaches.
# The more you write, the more connected and light you feel about opening up your personal life to your readers. The feeling of ‘I am somebody’ spreads over your mind overpowering you of all your real life aspects and bounties
—you ask your new neighbor their screen name and prefer calling them in abbreviated forms like IHM, DI, UI, OG.

—instead of real name you call your child Peanut, Brat, Poohi and their teacher just stares at you.

—you take a notepad, pen and flashlight to the theatre and note down each dialogue so that you can write a movie review.

—instead of bed coffee you ask for your laptop or get up and go straight to switch on your laptop/PC and read comments before even going to the bathroom.

—on the form where they ask your spouse’s name, you fill in as ‘the other half’, ‘Missus’, ‘Hasband’.

—when someone calls or e-mails, you ask them to leave a comment or subscribe to your RSS feed.

—you go on a vacation only to blog about it.

—you postpone meetings to finish tags.

—you forget your loved ones birthday but remember number of readers on your feedburner.

—instead of actual hugs you draw curly parenthesis in the air like {{}}

—your child walks for the first time and instead of holding him you run to blog about it.

—you smile and wink thinking about a blog post while talking to your boss (outcome could be a pink slip or something else )

—you forget to bathe for couple of days because you were blogging continuously.:( He!He!He!.

Does any symptom fit you? Then immediately blog about it. You are anyways an addict so one more won’t hurt or add to this list.

And………

if you are reading this on a Friday night or on a weekend then you are a confirmed addic