Are you a staticaholic?

A staticaholic is a person active in the blogosphere, more commonly known as a blogger, (this leaves out bots), who had consistently shown greater signs of addiction towards staticaholism.

More commonly found in upcoming bloggers and a few pro-bloggers who measure their success from second to second, staticaholism poses very serious threats to a blogger’s effectiveness at a given task. It makes a blogger addicted to his/her blog statistics and make the blog traffic charts the center of attraction in his or her life.

Symptoms

• Checking the subscription count from second to second.
• Checking the site visitor statistics every few minutes.
• Throwing up a party when a blog post gets stumbled.
• Feeling exhilarated when a single comment is posted in the blog by someone other than himself/herself.
• Calling off a date with the significant other because the blog experienced an all time low Alexa reach.
• Waking up in the morning expecting “a traffic spike”.
• Wondering whether a Google PageRank drop might occur while on the summer holidays.
• Clicking on any link that says “Increase your blog traffic” or “How to get 10,000 visitors in one second”.
• Ordering 12 custom shirts with 12 different colors from Alexa, with the same blog statistics printed.

If you claim to have one or more of these symptoms, please keep reading. You are hereby diagnosed a staticaholic.

Threats

Staticaholism poses a few threats to a blogger’s effectives and mental health, as mentioned above.

First of all, it should be said that it drastically reduces the positive time management in a blogger’s daily blogging schedule. High addiction levels might lead a blogger to stare at the statistics for a long time, for no reason, and with absolutely no ability to change the present statistics. This in turn takes valuable time off the investment that must be made in improving the quality of the blog.

It might also pose mental health threats such as depression, anger, and negative energy within self that might endanger the physical well-being, arising from low traffic levels.

In real-life

A staticaholic might also show sudden unexpected behavior. For an instance, crying out loud inside a cafe with free wi-fi access saying “I made it to the front-page of Digg”, and actually spilling the espresso all over the brand new laptop he/she bought from a few months AdSense revenue and some lucrative affiliate referrals, combined. Chances are that he or she might be expecting to buy a car, instead of a new laptop, from the traffic created by the “Digg Effect”. Thus, most of the time, falling short of (just) a few thousand dollars, leading to severe depression.

Help

You can help yourself to get over this dreaded addiction yourself since, unfortunately, all the charities and NGOs have better things to do. Nevertheless, MindBlogger is here.

You can start by spending less time on FeedBurner. If possible, block the Feed subscriber counter in your blog from being displayed in your computer. You can also block FeedBurner.com and Google Analytics for at least 12 hours a day with your browser’s privacy settings to prevent “accidental log-ons”.

It might come in handy to turnoff comment moderation e-mails from your blog platform to prevent unexpected exhilaration of having a new comment and the sudden decline of the feeling after knowing it was only spam.

Please employ these effective strategies to make your blogging life much easier and to get back into your real life since you maybe already calling the Google-bot your savior and the top commentators, you guardian angels.

To your health,
MindBlogger.