Let's talk about addiction

November 18, 2004 | 12:08 AM

Today's blog is going to discuss the serious topic of blog addiction. I have this friend, I'll call her "Spefanie" to keep this post anonymous. Well, Spefanie is a fan of my blog (who isn't, right?) and visits this website every day. She loves it, and can't get enough of it. She accesses this website to find out what I'm thinking, which is ironic because usually I just tell her.

Sometimes she reads my blog as we're talking on the phone, or even more shamelessly as I'm sitting next to her at her house.

What, she can't just ask me, "Drina, what's up?"

No, she must read it. Simply verbalizing my thoughts will not satisfy her incessant cravings.

This leads me to believe that Spefanie may suffer from the emerging DBA Disorder, more commonly known as Drina's Blog Addiction Disorder. Symptoms include daily downloading of the index.html page of Sonafide.com, reading blog text that one has already read before, referring in normal conversation to archived site material, and sending aggressive messages via AOL Instant Messenger demanding an immediate update. Threats of physical violence may also accompany such demands.

The bad news is that despite my training in psychology, I am neither equipped to treat this disorder, nor am aware of any specialists that could directly address the issue. The good news is that Spefanie is not alone in her suffering.

Wait, no, that's actually bad news. Nevermind.

There are many who suffer from DBA, including "Dante," "Teta Nicika," "Nary," "Riz," and the unknown lurker that spent nine hours surfing my site last week. Right now I'm trying to Google information that would help me deal with these addicts, but so far have been unsuccessful in finding relevent references. I guess they'll just have to suffer a little but longer. Sorry guys.

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