Blog Stalkers Beware

I'm a little upset this morning.

Here's my confession:

I have this, um, habit, of looking at other people's blogs. 

You know.  Throughout the day. 

Sometimes repeatedly out of boredom.

But I never leave comments. 

I'm incognito.  Which is just another word for awesome. 

And even though some people call me a stalker, I like to think of myself as...well, definitely not a stalker. 

Something less weird...with less stigma.  Like a blog researcher.  Or a blog looker-upper.  Or someone Ellen should pay to find funny blogs so she can feature them on her show (really, Ellen, give me a call and we'll set something up.  I happen to be available immediately and I have so much experience it's not even funny).

However, thanks to Blogger, it appears I will no longer be able to "blog research" anonymously (I can't spell anonymously...I think I have a brain block against it).  Because the geniuses there have gone ahead and added a "stats" button on the blog dashboard.

With a mere click, you can find who's looking at your blog, where they came from, the posts they're looking at, the time of day they're looking, etc.  Like really, really effective reverse stalking.

Now, I don't care if people know I look at their blogs.  What I do care about are those people who click on that stats button and find that I've looked at their blog ten times that day. 

It totally happens - I'm at home alone all day and the Internet and TV are my only contact with the outside world.  Sometimes I click on the blogs without even thinking about it.  Or I use certain blogs to get to other blogs.

Don't tell me you don't do it, too, because that would make you a big, fat liar.

Ugh.

So embarrassing. 

And also an invasion of my blog-looking-up privacy.

Thanks for outting me, Blogger.