No doubt this happens to all bloggers . . . burn out.
Not only is it blogging burn out, I just don't have the desire to be online this morning . . . PERIOD.
Because I have a restless type of personality, I bore very easily. It could be the reason I enjoy maintaining multiple blogs. On a normal day, I love everything that is involved with creating, maintaining and marketing my blog.
However, this week the burn out phase has been creeping up on me, which is very unlike me when it comes to my online activities.
Tuesday night, as I pondered my Wordless Wednesday for the week, I decided to drop that activity from my routine. Too much work for a little return, so I won't be hosting the linky anymore. Maybe it is the burn out talking . . . I don't know. The linky is no longer free, which helped my decision.
There is the possibility that spring fever has hit me and I secretly desire to spend more time doing stuff around the house and getting out in the awesome weather we are experiencing in Florida.
All I know is that this morning, I have gone from one task to another and have gone in a circle of going to the next thing before finishing, which is normal to do that with a few tasks, but not all of them.
It seems as though all of the social networks, I'm including Blogger, are going through "improvements" . . . which totally messes everything up before making it better. It has become ponderous to give my blogs a facelift with all the recent problems on Blogger. I was so motivated to redo all of my blogs and actually finished Subtropical Gardening, and almost finished this blog. I hate the header on PLH and want to change it, but I hesitate because I don't want to encounter problems. It ruins the fun.
The Captain and I are collaborating on a new blog and I was going to give his blog a facelift. Now I don't want to bother with it because I will encounter those problems. Facebook is a total mess as I started to set up my blog fan pages . . . lots of new followers with no easy way to keep track of them and follow back.
Seems like they decided to randomly place messages on the wall, in no chronological order. You can't make a post to the wall and have it be the first thing to show up on the page. Twitter access has been intermittent and slow since they are rolling out the "new Twitter".
Did they all get together and decide to make the total social marketing experience a drag?
It is human to go through burn out at some time or another, we all go through it. As far as the social media / blogging experience, I am more than charred . . . it is more like total burn out. I'm not going away since I need to keep my ad networks going, but the need to slow way down is necessary for me.
It all started when my I was recovering from my external hard drive failing, immediately followed by my hard drive completely going out and all the work associated with that activity that I have not completed. Then the social networks went into "improving their sites" . . .
Isn't a hobby supposed to be fun?
I'm questioning the whole process . . .
Am I the only one feeling like this?
