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Overloading yourself with online social network commitments can run counter to the interests of your blog. Joining too many networks, trying to please too many people and spending too much time promoting your own blog all take time away from writing. You are in danger of not paying sufficient attention to your most important social network; the one that is centered around your own blog.

What are some of the results of spending too much time on social media activities and not enough time on your blog?

• You may not post so often. Readers who visit expecting a new entry will not return so regularly. Your search engine rankings can suffer.
• The quality of your posts may deteriorate. Less time is taken for research and for writing.
• You have less time to respond to your comments and to visit the blogs of your supporters, some may be offended, some may stop visiting you so often, some may simply forget you.
• Conversations best carried out in your comments take place elsewhere.
• You may miss out on blogging events e.g. carnival submissions, memes, blog in unity days.
• You can miss out on being among the first to post and announce breaking news related to your blog topics.

You could likely add more to this list.
From a personal point of view:

• More important aspects of your life may not get the necessary time and attention they deserve.
• Your offline tasks may be neglected and even the people in your life may start to suffer.
• Trying to keep up with all the tasks you have set for yourself can lead to feelings of being disorganized and overwhelmed; stress, anxiety and depression could result.
• You may start to be short of ideas for topics to blog on.
• Lethargy can set in and you may begin to question why you are blogging and whether it is worth it.

This is not a cheerful post but I wanted you to be aware of what can result if you do over commit yourself to social media activities. There is a stage where, instead of enhancing your blogging and your blog, they become counterproductive for yourself and your blog. If you start thinking you are too busy with your peripheral blogging tasks or begin to feel overloaded then take some action to alleviate the situation straight away; before your enthusiasm for blogging starts to wain or your psychological welfare suffers.

I tend to hit an almost overload point quite regularly. I reign in my activities but in my enthusiasm for trying all that is new I get back to the same busy place again. I have my own methods of coping (writing this just presented me with the topic for my next post!) although, after being less than regular in posting lately, I realize they are not necessarily the most efficient methods. A rethink is needed. My methods may be good for my own state of mind but not so good for the blog.

Have you experienced blogging or social networking overload. If so how did it affect you and did you find any solutions that helped you?

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