Or at least what I went through since I became a blogger member :p

Learning stage
You start off with the simplest blogger template. You type multiple blog entries in a day and think that blogging is the most wonderful thing that has happened to you since the mIRC.

Then you discover you can actually customise yr template, and you find out how you can add songs, photos & other miscellaneous junk along the way.

Enthusiastic stage
You aspire to acquire as many links as possible. You derive pleasure from replying to tags in both yr own and other blogger's sites. You put a counter to track the amount of visitors to your blog.

You post huge pictures of yourself grinning with newly found blogmates. You want the whole world to know how interesting your normal life is. It gives you a sense of satisfaction.

Mellowed stage
You update less often, and bloghop less often. You consider deleting yr blog, all of it, but stop yrself from doing so cos a part of you still wants to blog.

Some of yr blogger friends have long stopped updating their blogs by this stage and you wonder if they've been caught up with happenings in their real life.

Introverted stage
You decide that you want to blog, but want to do it in private. You tinker with password protection but in the end, give up as it's too cumbersome. You want someone to read yr blog; only yr closest ones; not just anyone.

So, you do a clean up on yr links-list and keep only those you think are worth keeping.

Feel-more at ease blogging stage
With only those close to you reading yr blog (or so you want to believe), you feel more relaxed, that yr blog-crowd is now under control. You blog more freely; you post less photos that enable people to identify you. You just wanna write.

No prizes for guessing the stage I'm at now :)

clue: NOT the enthuasiastic stage