This is The Truth!
The Lifecycle of Blogs, with my own commentary (better commentary at the source). This does seem to describe most bloggers, although I’m always the one who has to be different:
1. Start reading blogs.
I’m an idiot. I didn’t know about blogs when I started! Duh!
2. You start a blog.
Check.
3. You become a stats whore.
Check. And a link whore - linking this to basil’s Covered Dish!
4. You become really personal on your site as the online and real-life worlds start confusing you.
Not really. I have no real-life to speak of outside my home, but personal? Nah.
5. You faux “retire” from blogging.
I hate that shi’ite. Not me (yet).
6. You cave back into blogging in less than 72 hours.
HAHAHAHA
7. You decide to “get serious” about blogging.
I think I’ve gotten LESS serious. Maybe not.
8. You have a pseudo flirty im/blogging/flickr flirting relationship with another blogger whom you have never met.
There’s even less chance you’d guess correctly than there is chance of my telling you. And it wasn’t a big deal. GAWD, I’m a geek!
9. You decide that you must meet other bloggers.
DIXIE BLOGFEST!!!! W00t!
10. You take a step back and metablog about blogging and what blogging has done about your blogging.
F–k, I’m doing that right now, I guess. See? I’m an idiot.
11. See step 5.
Nope.
12. You decide that as a result of step 10 and having repeated step 5 more than 3 times in the course of your lifecycle as a blogger, that you need to sanitize or reinvent your blog.
NEVER!
13. You either lose your job because of blogging, are afraid of losing your job for blogging, or join a company that builds blogging tools.
What is this “job” of which you speak?
14. You decide to start an anonymous livejournal blog.
MAYBE I already HAVE…muahahahahaaaa (although I wouldn’t use LJ!)
William Teach says:
It could be worse. It could be blogging about bloggers blogging about blogs that were submitted by bloggers for a blogging blogjam initiated by a main blog to highlight the lowlights of said bloggers.
I was hoping the Dixie blog fest was going to be later, gonna be visiting the ‘rentals in NJ, though I might get tickets to the Freedom Concert at Great Adventure.
epiphany says:
:shock: I don’t have a problem…never..nope not me…Can I blog this?…nope…no problem here…I can quit anytime I want!
Pamela says:
You are brilliant
thats was the best
Ogre says:
You are SO a blog-geek.
Benedict says:
Dizzy Girl says:
The Dawn Knows No Reprieve…
Real World - My family came back from West Virginia Tuesday night with stories to tell and wildflowers in a ziplock bag. *deep sigh* I really miss home. It’s not that I want to move back, because I don’t, but…
Dizzy Girl: Take With 50 Grains of Salt... says:
Dizzy Girl says:
The Dawn Knows No Reprieve…
Real World - My family came back from West Virginia Tuesday night with stories to tell and wildflowers in a ziplock bag. *deep sigh* I really miss home. It’s not that I want to move back, because I don’t, but…
Smoke Eater says:
I think I may have to see where I am on this “cycle” and that “job” thing, is a place where you must sit and be bored for something like EIGHT FRIGGIN HOURS A DAY and they give you barely enough money to survive on in return. Why do you think I am shooting for law school, so I can just be a bullshi’iteter and get paid a BUTTLOAD of money to do it.