Addicted to MGoBlog - What will end this?
From many posts over the past 2 months, I know there are quite a few of us who were F5'ing the website constantly -- often to the chagrin of spouses -- waiting for news on RR then on the CC, JH then LM etc etc.
Has this become habit-forming for anyone else??? I now find myself doing the same thing for recruiting. Like the choice of some confused 17 year old kid really should affect my life... but yet, every morsel of news is like another prick of the needle, temporarily satisfying my body's need for it.
Here's how bad it is for me: I actually was thinking about posting a forum question, "WHEN BRYANT SAYS HE IS CHOOSING TONIGHT AT 7:30, IS THAT EASTERN OR CENTRAL TIME (HE'S IN CHICAGO)?"
And I thought to myself: STOP THE MADNESS!!!!!!! What have I become??? What's the antedote? When does it end?
Because I know this is going to afflict me right up to February 2, when we'll get news of every fax that UM receives or doesn't receive (anyone remember the heart palpitations when there was news that McGuff's fax didn't come in right away at dawn)... but what will keep me doing this after Feb 2? (Not hoops.) I don't know what it will be.... but I know something will.
(And, for the record, I guess officially I don't really care b/c it doesn't affect me, whether it's 7:30 ET or 7:30 CT for Bryant... BUT... if you happen to know, um, what's the answer, k thx.)
January 28th, 2011 at 12:21 PM ^
You could always take up crack...
January 28th, 2011 at 12:24 PM ^
I'm definitely not addicted. I could stop any time I wanted, but I just don't want to. It feels good and it hasn't messed up my home/work/school relationships yet, so I'll just keep on doing it.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
But there's a word for this - denial. The malware attack scared me enough to not visit the site for a few days. Those were very difficult days. Trying to get news from thewolverine.com behind a pay wall was not helpful.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^
Your sarcasm meter isn't quite tuned in. But yes, those were dark days. Can't wait to have the site fully back, then everything will be all good again.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:28 PM ^
...it only worsens the addiction.
Signed, certified member of MGoBlog Addicts Anonymous and, more recently, Alcoholics Anonymous....
January 28th, 2011 at 12:30 PM ^
7:30 CST per TomVH
Now that I have a boring office job for the time being, I'm a serial F5er too. No shame in that.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:32 PM ^
when in doubt, go to Tom
'Chris is announcing his decision tomorrow at 7:30pm (I believe Central time). '
January 28th, 2011 at 12:33 PM ^
i think someone uploaded malware to the site to end their addiction. it turned out not to be a long-term solution.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
trust me i know the feeling. I look at this during lecture, when my girl friend walks out of the room, when my boss isn't around, and hell when i have a free moment at anytime during the day. I feel like I need something to distract me. I mean it could be worse, i could be hooked on hard drugs or alocholism (like many mgobloggers already jk) or porn. I guess this isn't a terrible addictions but i feel brian needs to create an mgobloggers anonymous meetings. Where instead of figuring out our problems we would probably talk about what 17 year old might be the next woodson or woodley.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
The only prescription is more cowbell.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:36 PM ^
You need to "bottom out" before you realize that you need help. It sounds like you're still thinking Mgoblog is something you can handle, rather than something that handles you. If that's how you want to live your life, fine, be my guest. But trust me, that rosy path you think you're currently treading is strewn with thorns and broken glass. Mgoblog will eventually get the best of you, and before you know it you'll be blubbering on the kitchen floor in the fetal position, longing for the comfort of a reassuring post from TomVH -- and it won't come. Instead, all you'll get is photoshopped images of Lloyd Brady playing the harp or somesuch thing.
Quit now and turn to chugging cough syrup or some more reliable form of self-affirmation.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^
The more Section 1 posts you read, the less addictive the site becomes.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
I've been going to MGoBlog Anonymous daily! My wife and kid have left me, I lost my job, my house and my car. At least I still have my smart phone. They'll never be able to take that from me!!!! All I want to do is press F5 and refresh! Is that so wrong?
January 28th, 2011 at 1:20 PM ^
January 28th, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
Well, kid, you're in a pretty bad spot. Pretty much the only hope you have is to go to Brian directly, and beg him to give you your soul back.
PS: I'll save your seat-- I have a feeling you'll be back.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
mgoblog, dat bitch da shit, i love it and i think it da realest bitch alive
January 28th, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
I'm pretty damn addicted to this site, but it's pretty easy to walk away after NSD. After seeing enough, "True freshman X will supplant established starter Y!!!" threads, I begin searching for better uses of my time(until Spring practice, at least).
January 28th, 2011 at 12:43 PM ^
May can be a pretty barren month around here...
January 28th, 2011 at 12:43 PM ^
Just wait'll we launch the official MGoBlog MMORPG (MGoRPG?) World of MGoCraft. Players can choose to be a RichROARD or BO-lliance character, and any type of specialist. Then you group up with other MGoBoard members to battle through dungeons by combining your football, recruiting, and blogging skills. Spend your MGoPoints in the Auction House to buy upgrades that keep your pad level down, and visit trainers like Barwis to upgrade your "explosiveness," which will help your party.
If you're not addicted now, you will be.
You. Will Be.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:48 PM ^
Make. This. Happen.
I would say /s, but I don't think I can.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
How to stop refreshing is easy.....MALWARE
January 28th, 2011 at 12:48 PM ^
it never ends. it only gets worse.
don't fight this. you cannot win.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:01 PM ^
I was barely able to keep myself from checking the site, bright red google malware warnings be damned.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:13 PM ^
I have decent virus protection, but the red "Malware Warning!!!" screen wasn't a deterrent whatsoever.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:06 PM ^
I'm addicted too, but no shame in it. I am on this site every day all day at work and usually at home. I have nothing better to do at work and find MGoBlog helps to pass the long boring days. Gotta love it because you know you can't quit.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:07 PM ^
My name is Bryan and I am an addict.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:11 PM ^
One of the distinguishing characteristics between the two is the response under periods of deprivation. If there's any question whether or not someone needs something, take it away from them and see if they can live without it. A heated home, or perhaps food, is an obvious example.
That said, it has been a tough week for all of us...
January 28th, 2011 at 1:15 PM ^
I've done it a hundred times.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:22 PM ^
cut down on the shakes, the sweats, and the hallucinations about our 2011 recruiting class.
These are the recruiting class rankings (via Scout) for the last five seasons of a program we're well acquainted with:
2010: 33
2009: 51
2008: 26
2007: 41
2006: 37
The team? Wisconsin.
Yeah, we aspire to be a better program than the Badgers, but the point is that they've managed to maintain a pretty respectable operation with recruiting classes that Michigan fans would be suicidal about. If we finish out of the top 25 or 30 this season, it's not the end of the world.
January 28th, 2011 at 2:10 PM ^
OK, but here are ESPN's rankings of Michigan's recruiting classes over the past five years:
2006: 11
2007: 10
2008: 13
2009: 10
2010: 14
Michigan is among the dozen or so elite football programs in the country, in large part due to its historically superior recruiting. A subpar class here or there is not the end of the world, but comparing ourselves to Wisconsin, as if that should be the bar, would be the worst possible direction our football program could take.
Edit: Here are Scout's rankings of Michigan's recruiting classes over the same five-year period:
2006: 9
2007: 10
2008: 6
2009: 14
2010: 12
January 28th, 2011 at 1:29 PM ^
It's just a phase. Work has been really stressful. Also, I've got seasonal depression. So...
January 28th, 2011 at 1:38 PM ^
January 28th, 2011 at 1:52 PM ^
Some things in life are best left alone. This addition can neither be explained nor stopped. Going on 4 or 5 years now. It's just become part of everyday life, like breathing.
January 28th, 2011 at 2:00 PM ^
During the "Great Malware Disaster" I went to the scout board and umgoblue forum for info and it was not the same. This place is really special.
January 28th, 2011 at 4:50 PM ^
I went to the site a few times and stopped at the warning. A few days of that and I was thinking that "what is the big deal I wasn't really missing anything." I didn't need to check in so regularly. However, as soon as it was safe to go back in the water, I dove back in...over and over.
January 28th, 2011 at 4:00 PM ^
Why would you want to end it? You just need to stop fighting it and accept the fact that you're an addict and will be for life. The best night sleep I've ever had was the same day I decided not to fight my MGoBlog addiction.
January 28th, 2011 at 4:37 PM ^
January 28th, 2011 at 5:20 PM ^
I can't wait for the reports out of spring practice that every single player has shown "massive improvement" "looks huge, ripped and lightening fast" and "is ready to take a monster step forward."
Grim? What about all of the speculation and uninformed depth chart proposals, unfounded transfer rumors, too-often-true injury reports, and "who is going to redshirt?" speculation.
No, my friend, there are exciting months that we have to look forward to.
January 28th, 2011 at 5:18 PM ^
Michgoblue: "He, my name is Michgoblue, and I am a MgoBlog-aholic."
MGoCommunity: "Hi, Michgoblue."
Michgoblue: "I used to tell myself that I could stop any time I wanted. And I stopped a few times. I have gone whole hours without checking. Admittedly, this was before the CC fiasco, but I have tasted success. Once, I was on vacation and I went a whole 3 hours without checking MGoBlog. Ultimately, I pretended to be doing work on my blackberry, but secretly checked MgoBlog while my wife was in the pool."
MGoCommunity: "Yup, been there." "Your poor wife." "Let it out, let it out."
Michgoblue: "It started out innocently enough - I would check the front page daily. You know, just to see if anything significant was happening. But soon, the front page wasn't enough. I found myself hitting F5 regularly, just to see if someone - anyone - had posted anything on the MGoBoard. I couldn't stop. And what was worst, was when there was nothing new on the MGoBoard. I couldn't take it."
MGoCommunity: "What did you do when there was nothing new on the MGoBoard?"
Michgoblue: /breaks down crying "I started my own threads just to get others talking. I need help.
Random member in the back of the room: "Hey, Rivals is reporting that Hoke is en route to visit a 4* RB from the midwest and that he will be announcing tonight."
Michgoblue: "Get me my blackberry. I need to check MGoBlog NOW!"
January 31st, 2011 at 11:44 AM ^
I had checked MGoBlog once and a while for updates when I was in school there but never really got too into it. But with the whole coaching change thing going on for seemingly so long I came back to the MGoLifeline for constant updates, plane stalking, etc....and now find myself checking for anything new all the time.
I think my girlfriend summed it up best yesterday: "OMG are you on MGoBlog again!?! It's too bad you can't have sex with it because that's all I can do that it can't."
Haha.