81 Reasons You Know You Entrecard Too Much When:

Posted on January 14, 2008
Filed Under Blog traffic, Rambling

I started up a thread in the Entrecard forum with this topic, and it took off quite a bit. The thread can be found here. I know some people don’t frequent the forums there too much so I’m reposting what the people’s responses were in there.

So here we go the you know you Entrecard too much when:

A friend sends you a link, and you scroll down the page looking for the Entrecard link.
Someone mentions contest prizes, and you think of credits.You clicked on my profile in this thread, and dropped a card.
Your trying to pay for real ads via Entrecard credits.
Someone replies to this thread, and you dropped a card.
You start up an online game and someone drops(disconnects). You see the message and think 1 credit.
You have about 3 drafts in your blog half done because you went to grab a someone’s link to link to, and you started chain dropping out of habit.
Someone else replies to this thread, and you clicked their profile to drop a card.
You’re in a blogging forum, and someone mentions how much traffic they get. So you go and check if their listed in Entrecard to buy an ad.
You also checked if the above mentioned person had the widget to drop a card.
You came back to this to finish this post after another chain card drop habit.

Just one more credit today usually ends up with visiting another 5-10 sites.
You lie in bed awake trying to come up with a new 125 ad idea.
The first thing you do after you wake up is run to the computer to check your position in your category.
You try to talk your hosting company into joining Entrecard so that you can pay them with credits.
You do the same with your landlord.
You recommend everyone you know to join Entrecard to get more traffic and then realize that one of the people you told was the CEO of Yahoo.com.
… you find an anti-Entrecard post and you immediately think “NOOB!!!”
… you despair when a favorite blog leaves the system.
… you browse the campaign section and immediately look for YOUR logo (just in case someone else passed you in your category and you’re not on the front page anymore)
… panic that you’re not on the front page anymore so you go and drop your cards on everyone 9except probably those who are competing with you for popularity in your category)

… you invite all your blogging friends to join, have a “join-entrecard” thread in a forum your active in
…when you’ve completely stopped going to any websites besides those at Entrecard because anyone else “just isn’t good enough.”
When you’re on a picket line you start tapping people on the head trying to drop a card on them.
You start a thread like this and it’s only funny because everyone else is a powerless addict, too.
You go to give someone a real business card and you pause as if waiting for a screen to refresh.
You are asked by bloggin-ads to contribute a prize to his contest and you oblige by contributing an entry to YOUR contest (cough cough)
Many people in the system have gone through the like you / hate you cycle at least 4 times.
Graham and Phirate ask you to sign a special waver and recommend you see a psychologist.
John Chow makes a 5 digit offer for your Entrecard account
Blogging conventions in your area rent a tour bus and bring people by your house every hour on the hour.

Your dog puts a sign on your front door saying, “Beware the Blogger!”
A policeman pulls you over for speeding and you say, “Please, do you know who drops their card on my site?!”
Same cop pulls you over next week and you offer him a bribe of 1000 credits. And he accepts!!
You kidnap your neighbors dog and ransom it for E.C.
A new health related term is coined based on your problem – “Carpal Tunnel Finger”
…when you’ll never look at a picture of Uncle Sam the same way again. Ever.
…when you know who Sam Freedom of Entrecard is and either lurk on his site and his forum threads, answer his survey question on his blog, or shy away from openly debating with him when he’s on his “I love Entrecard” mode.
… when you’ve heard that Saphrym is giving away $250 and a thousand ECs at the end of February
…you notice the .7 pounds Saphrym lost yesterday.
…you can name off when different EC contests end.

…you don’t even care about EC contests unless they are 200 or higher.
…you now have around 4 ‘pinoy’ friends you check up on each day. Last month, you didn’t even know what the heck ‘pinoy’ meant.
…you keep checking the forums to see if people responded to your posts.
…you stop by the forums to ’see who is here today.’
When your other half asks if your coming to bed you tell them you need to drop a few credits first … oh is that just me?
Not you at all. I got my wife hip to what EC is and now she texts me throughout the day to see what it costs to advertise and where I’m ranked in my category. Puh-thetic aren’t we?
You get into a fight with your other half and it goes like this, “I don’t know you? Well, you don’t know Entrecard!”
When you go to pick something up and it hurts, you think to yourself I think I have Entrecard Elbow.
your original post on this topic was composed while heads-up in a $500 winner-takes-all poker game;
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in a bidding war for ad space on your widget;

The mushrooms you love so much in your breakfast omelettes can be found growing on your back;
your ISP sends you a notice politely informing you that you must upgrade to a T3 line;
Your family joins Entrecard in order to re-establish communication with you.
…you start bookmarking topics like this one to see what everyone else says.
When your baby’s first word is, “Entrecard.”
You want to cancel your holiday because there’s no internet access. This is true, I’m going to the sticks for a few days so please feel free to keep dropping although I won’t be able to reciprocate.
…when you know that it’s pronounced like the beginning of Entrepreneur and NOT like the French word, “entré”.
You name your baby after Entrecard.
When you remove the “subscribe here” link name on your signature and replace it with…”Need entrecard credits to advertise on my site? Join my contest to win 1000 credits. You can join by subscribing here (link) first.”
When your loved one shakes you in the middle of the night and says, “Sweetie, you were dropping cards in your sleep.”

When you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat wondering if you had hit 300 the day before.
When you start targeting the 125 in the top spot in your category…Watch out EvilWoobie!!!
When you wonder how many credits would it take for Joe to shave off his gotee….
When someone says 300 you don’t think of Sparta anymore.
When you count 125×125 images to fall asleep.
When you hope the weight loss Entrecarders eat some donuts so their weight loss blogs never come to an end.
When someone who isn’t a part of Entrecard tries to tell you about their blog and you react sharply with, “PLEASE..! What do YOU know?”
When you really believe Graham and Phirate are living in the same apartment.
When your eye doctor is examining your cornea through his magnifying lenses and asks, “What the hell is dracertnE?”
When your family hires Dr. Phil to shimmy up your drainpipe and smash the window to your computer room;
When Britney Spears thinks YOU’RE a mess;

When Saphrym has to GAIN 70lbs.
When every time you drop a deuce and flush your toilet you sing, “Ooooone Crediiiiiit…!”
When your kids tell mommy, “dad’s not eating, he’s dropping cards again.”
Your family hires the world’s foremost “addiction intervention” expert and she says, “Sorry, even I know my limits.”
You need a machete to get to your bathroom…
Since you need a machete to get to your bathroom, you stop using it…
Your lightbulbs are burned out and you are down to the final inch of your last candle
You have a special arrangement with Nutri-System to not only “auto-ship” your food, but to come inside and feed it to you, too.
Your kid brings you his report card and you say, “F? Why that’s good son! Now give daddy (mommy) some time to herself”
The CIA wants to send you on secret missions to Laos since no one will miss you anymore.

Your fingers are stumps and your mouse doesn’t even work anymore so you stare at the “Drop Yours” phrase and yell, “click! Cliiick!! CLIIICK!!!!”

Phew now that is quite a long list. I want to thank everyone who contributed to the thread with all these posts. We need to do this again sometime. The contributors are (in order of appearance:

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8 Responses to “81 Reasons You Know You Entrecard Too Much When:”

Jason - Blogging4cash (5 comments.) on January 14th, 2008 2:55 pm

This is hilarious. Good stuff.
Cheers.

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Sanjo-chan (8 comments.) on January 14th, 2008 8:38 pm

Good read. I fall under some of those addictions. :O

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Life is Colourful (2 comments.) on January 15th, 2008 8:31 am

Hahaha! This is wonderful list from Entrecarders! I enjoyed a lot reading it, and this could be possible because I subscribed to this smart bald guy. I suggest you too do it.

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Steve Yu (1 comments.) on January 16th, 2008 2:25 am

Hehe… Entrecard is the current toy for blogger. LOL!

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Chica (1 comments.) on January 16th, 2008 11:38 am

That list is mighty damn clever, I especially like the eye doctor one.
SEO Rob (1 comments.) on January 21st, 2008 4:09 pm

Thank you for the link love. I stumbled this post.

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Mitch on January 21st, 2008 4:22 pm

Thanks for all the replies everyone, and thank you for the stumble Rob =)
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