The Dangers of Blogging– Re-post for Mouse

It seems that mouse has just discovered the addictive nature of blogging.  Just so she might be aware of the dangers associated with it, I decided to re-post this:

Federal regulation may be needed to stave off the dangers associated with blogging.  As the popularity of blogging increases every year so does the many harms it causes.  What’s worse is that unscrupulous, lunatic, neo-nazi, fascist administrators are doing their best to convince you that you need to pay money to add content to their site.  In wildly overblown claims of high overhead, time consumption, and other made up costs, they further try to guilt by relentlessly berating you to click their adds.  All the while, they exhibit total disregard for our safety, while they freely impose their will like some tyrant on his throne, without so much as a disclaimer warning of the impending dangers to which you will no doubt be exposed.  In addition to government regulation, we need to take personal responsibility and at very least become aware of the dangers associated with the free, unfettered expression of ideas (as if).

Social Associative disorder.  This is perhaps the greatest danger of all.  This is where you become detached from reality and become completely engrossed in the cyber-world  of blogging.  Oddly enough, you may even dedicate entire posts to making fun of “losers” for playing virtual reality games like Second Life.  Saying their stupid because they don’t even know it’s not real.  SAD is difficult to spot initially as it is a progressive ailment, however there are warning signs.  First, if you find yourself actually, lol’ing, this can often be the first step to SAD.  Next, on the rare occasions when you do venture away from your computer, you spend your evening wondering what’s going on at your blogsite.  You begin to have difficulty interacting with real-world friends because every time you try to explain the hilarity that goes on online, they just don’t get it.  Next you begin to tell complete strangers your deepest, darkest secrets and fears.  Finally, you find yourself in the midst of a steamy online relationship that no one seems to get.  No longer is there time for any real world activities and the very line between real and cyber becomes indistinguishable.

Cooking while blogging.  It seems that accidents in the kitchen are on the rise as well-meaning folks start dinner and simply must get back to that last post they were reading.  By the time they’ve left the fifth witty comment and the smoke breaks them from the computer’s grips, dinner is lost and full blown fires have been caused by this.

Poor Work Performance.  The online world will not simply wait for you to get home from work so you’re left with no choice but to enter that url and point your browser to your favorite blog site.  It all starts innocently enough, something like, “I’ve been looking at spreadsheets for hours, I’m just going to pop in to see what’s going on.”  The next time you look up, it’s 5 o’clock and time to go home… to get on your home computer and see if anyone has replied to your last comment or post.  For those of you who like to write in the morning, you may find that tardiness has become an issue.

Delusions of Grandeur.  For political bloggers, they often seem to feel that they alone have figured out the solution to all the world’s problems, or at very least can point out what’s wrong with the policies that a team of people with far greater IQ’s and extensive education have proposed.  Whats more, is the feeling of disdain you get when others read your work and aren’t instantly swayed to your side.  This can also occur in the area of sexuality.  You somehow feel because you’ve written of your sexual prowess that it is somehow increased.  Because you declare yourself the Clit Whisperer somehow makes you believe that you are.

These are the dangers unsuspecting bloggers face everyday.  So I urge all of you to go to your bloggs and raise awareness on this very important issue.  For it’s only through our blogging that we can bring about change.  Join with me as we smite those who would undo our efforts to make the world a better place one word at a time.

Shit, lunch was over two hours ago and I haven’t even looked at porn yet… gotta run!

Jahm