I was just about to log out for my morning marathon blogging session across several of my blogs when I came across an article on The New York Times, which I think many bloggers would want to read. In summary, the article says blogging is dangerous as bloggers “are toiling under great physical and emotional stress”. Here are some interesting pointers:
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment. [...]
And here’s another:
Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet. [...]
Two deaths but not sure if blogging were the causes:
To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic.
Read the whole NYT article, titled “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop“. I can attest to the fact that blogging is emotionally and physically stressful, not to mention that it has made me a sitting creature… one that sits in front of computer, blogging on every available opportunity.
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that’s not what blogs are for anyway.. shouldn’t be stressful.
true. but some people just can’t avoid being stressed up by this blogging thingy