Does this ring a bell ?

You Know You Blog wayyyyy too much when... [thanks Sameer, for the link]

"Ö you post the wrong article on the wrong blog
Ö your family prefers to interact with you through your blogs.
Ö you met your girlfriend/boyfriend through a blog.
Ö your ìblog communityî is much, much larger than the number of people you know in real life.
Ö you consider yourself an ìalternative journalist".
Ö you start your day by checking your blog stats.
Ö a day without blogging seems like a month without food.
Ö your feedreader is open all day.
Ö you get more ìapprove this commentî email messages than spam.
Ö you know what RSS stands for and you know how weak the medium is.
Ö people worry about you when you do not post anything for a day.
Ö work is the little time you spend in between writing on your blog and IRC.
Ö my pagerank is bigger than yours!
Ö invalid XHTML is a bad word to you.
Ö you check your blogshares weekly, more than you check your savings account.
Ö youíve gotten your parents to blog.
Ö your dog has her own page on Dogster and it gets updated!
Ö Kubrick is no longer just the legendary filmmaker
Ö you have to switch hosts to keep up with your bandwidth needs.
Ö you make more money from blogging than you do at your day job."[weblogtoolscollection]

Here's a collection of posts i found around blogging as an addiction, one earlier post of mine, and a few others :  

Blogging, the Addiction

Are you addicted to blogging?

Blogging - Choose your Drug

Blog Awareness  Stage 4 - Blog Addiction

Your level of blog addiction is "high"

I Think My Blog Addiction is Contagious

Is blogging the opium of the Internet Generation?

A search on Google has plenty of results on "blogging addiction" - i ran out of steam on the first page - and its more of the A-lister posts around this that i seem to have picked up as their google rankings are higher - will spend more time later sifting out more gems on this ! 

As i was doing this post, i was sharing it with a friend and he asked me what about your blogging addiction ? why is it so addictive ? how addictive is it ? what are withdrawal symptoms if you could not blog ?

I think it has partly to do with self expression, partly with identity, partly with community - my blog is my social network - its part of a community i belong to - i lose touch with my community - i dont feel i am pushing my community further.

Its not a good feeling.  

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