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Am I The Only One?

I have a really bad habit of opening up some one’s blog, all ready to read it, when all of a sudden something comes up that commands my immediate attention, and I end up walking away from my computer for ohhhhh, say like two hours. No big deal, right? WRONG! I know that every single one of you with blogs have Stat Trackers installed and can see EVERYTHING that goes on. So I get super dooper paranoid whenever I come back to my computer and see that I have been sitting on one of your sites all that time.

I start thinking, “Oh for f—ks sake - why did I do that? Now they are going to check their stats and be wondering why in the hell I was on their site for like two hours YO! They are totally going to think I am stalking them and that I am a weirdo!!!” So do you? Huh, do YOU? I have webstat installed, but I honestly cannot remember the last time I ever checked it, and when I do, it is only to laugh at what search words people typed to find my blog.

So, if I have sat on your site and made you scared for your life…I am sorry! Whew, I am glad I got that off my chest!

COMMENTS

I do it too, and I do it with tabs and multiple sites open at once. I'm pretty sure people that are really into checking their stats can tell. Because it shows that you were on the same page the entire time. At least that's what I tell myself.
Posted by Friglet on 2007-06-07 00:25:20 I don't have a stat tracker...but would like to have one. Could you offer a suggestion on a good one (preferrable free)?
Posted by NaeNae on 2007-06-06 20:27:30 Me too..darn IE and those tabs! I can leave one open all day and then not remember why (or how) I even got there!
Posted by Deanna (domestic chicky) on 2007-06-06 19:43:50 Well, you know why I review my stats. I hate to be blindsided one day. I always leave a gagillion tabs open in FF and forget to close them. I know people check their stats and I often wonder the same thing. I don't care if someone sits on my site, but it's the people that read from day one to now...that's a lot 'o reading or the one's that try to get into the ones that are private. Sadly we live in a world of fucktards. Rather than quit blogging, I put up the iron curtain. :(
Posted by Chatty on 2007-06-06 18:13:38 I do it, too. The thing that weirds me out about stats is the people that come, read through all the archives, and say nothing. It gives me a complex.
Posted by Toryssa on 2007-06-06 14:23:42 I think this is very common. I do it all the time. I usually have at least 15-20 tabs open at any one time and I can have a site open for days, that I keep meaning to go back to and read. I think also, if you are "inactive" on a site, meaning you are not clicking other site links, or actively using the site, you won't show up in the stats as being on for hours. I think that's how it works but I could totally be wrong.
Posted by mel on 2007-06-06 13:34:14 I closed out of your blog and realized I needed to get back on your site and sit for a few hours. :) ....still sitting..... ....still sitting..... Okay, for real. I am gone now. :)
Posted by Sweet Yet Sassy on 2007-06-06 13:28:39 I feel special when you stalk my blog all day everyday! :) HA! I do the same thing and have come to the point where I don't care. LOL! Most of the people I read know I am not psycho anyway..... or do they?!
Posted by Sweet Yet Sassy on 2007-06-06 13:27:15 Well, I'm pretty sure they landed on your site after a search for me because my comments here are far fresher than the content on my blog, thanks to the restrictions placed upon me while I travel through this unending desert of misery known as divorce. Regarding stats, I use Mint and think it's fantastical because I can snoop behind the scenes to my heart's content from anywhere I have an internet connection. However, I'm not found perusing those stats very often. When I do (and it's probably a big reason why I don't check as often) I find that searches for "juicy butts" and "granny panties" top the list of booleans that led people to visit my website... Go fig!
Posted by The Bombshell on 2007-06-06 10:51:46 I do that constantly, and I never check my stats. If I find a blog I like, I will spend hours reading the archives, so I bet people at some point, thought I was a stalker...or have no life, LOL!
Posted by MissPrissy on 2007-06-06 10:25:40 There is a difference between sitting on someones blog for hours as opposed to being on the blog going through 127 pages....On an old typepad blog I had, I was being stalked - he/she/it was weird and scary at the same time. I would erase a search word and he would search another and put like a smiley in the search box :-) to let me know that he was still messing with me. I am much more careful now.
Posted by Judi on 2007-06-06 09:06:53 I don't have a tracking thing, and could care less if someone sits on my blog for seven days straight. And I really don't care how long I'm on someone else's blog. If you don't want me there, then don't put your blog on the world wide web for gosh sakes. Don't register it on all sorts of blogging things, and don't visit other people's sites and leave your web address. My theory is "If you're that worried about who visits your blog, then stop keeping a blog." In the grand scheme of things, what does it really matter?
Posted by Dena on 2007-06-06 08:08:06 I did that just a little while ago at Joelle's. I thought the same thing. If you see me doing that on yours, it's because I REALLY AM stalking YOU though.
Posted by Misty on 2007-06-06 01:10:47 *breaths sigh of relief" Thank god I am not the only one.
Posted by Misty on 2007-06-05 23:28:58 I do that all the time. I never close my browser when I leave or go to bed so it could sit on a site for hours and hours and I'll never think twice about it.
Posted by Betty on 2007-06-05 23:06:20 Nope You are not alone there. I've done it.
Posted by Jenn on 2007-06-05 22:30:32 I do the same thing! Sometimes when I close firefox I'll have left a blog open in the tabs, which means it will reopen when I restart firefox. I'm sure people are wondering what I'm doing on there so often. LOL
Posted by Tess on 2007-06-05 22:27:23 Most often, I'll open up a blog to read it and then something comes up and I'll close it. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Sometimes I'll visit blogs several times a day. Sometimes I close the window in a minute or so. Sometimes I'll actually get to read it. Sometimes I leave it open for hours.
Posted by Bonnie on 2007-06-05 22:07:25

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