StormWarning’s Counterterrorism

Blogging and Your Health

Blogging 24/7 can be stressful, and dangerous to your health. Some people take “it” (being first to scoop a story) so seriously, that they can’t do anything else but literally watch the AP wire.

Its the digital era sweat shop…the home computer!

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.

Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

Pay? I don’t get paid for what I write…(is it worth anything?). Is anything that people post, especially when its only a cut/paste of someone else’s work worth it? Ask the question. Why has nothing been posted here in a week? Its called work…real work.

But if you think that blogging is a high-stress job, go try to do what I’ve been doing.

The danger factor results from high levels of stress that come with 24-hour, nonstop, sedentary reading and writing. In the world of blogging, time means everything. If you can be the first one to find, analyze, and post the news, then you can reap the rewards of the traffic it will produce, and therefore make more money, as many professional bloggers are paid per click or per post.

Keep things in perspective, despite all of the hype that bloggers are citizen journalists.