WordPress Themes, MySpace Backgrounds, Blogskins are in demand.  Blogging is getting bigger and better everyday.  Some people naturally have that first infatuation with blogging, they shop for a new WordPress Theme, swap blogroll links, play with their blog twice a day, etc.

Then there are some people that get hooked - way past getting a new Wordpress Theme or checking their blog twice per day.  These people enter the “Twilight Zone of Blog Addiction” - yes it happens to 1 in 5 bloggers (okay, okay, maybe 1 in 10 or 20).  Here at the Blog Help Support Group we have identified 12 key factors that will enable(?) you to identify a Blogging Addict (So, could this be you? - Just be honest with yourself now.)

1) When you free associate just to get content in your blog writing.

2) You agonize over which blog skin or Wordpress Theme you should change to.

3) You sign up for Stat Counter and SiteMeter just to make sure you can monitor your visitor’s every move, and check the counters against one another.

4) You ask a friend to post a comment just so you won’t be virgin.

5) You get very careful about swapping links - even though you know you will do it anyway.

6) Your blog acquaintances seem like real “friends” even though the only peak experience you’ve shared is a happy face.

7) You feel a responsibility to post a comment on any blog you read.

8) Your bookmarked blogs are arranged into lots of folders.

9) You wonder if feed readers dilute the blogging experience.

10) You get frustrated if your role-model blogs don’t post everyday.

11) Blogging begins to dominate your dreams.

12) You get your first carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms and feel sagely philosophic about it.

I took off #13 - “calloused fingertips” - because you might have a number of other habits that  could  cause  this  -  iPod  fondling,  TV  remote  syndrome, plastic vibrator hyperoscillation, etc.

Director, Blog Help Support Group,
Arthur Browning