We’ve all been there, I’m sure. We get a new game, a new DVD, a new book series, find a new website, what have you, and we get sucked into it, wholly and fully. For a while, we’re totally enamored with this thing, whether it’s a new TV series, a funny website, or a book series. Eventually, however, we all get to a point where we start feeling less enamored with this new thing, this new obsession, so we take one of many different paths. We take a break from it and return later, quit from it outright, or plow through the burnout.

When you’re a geek, you have a lot of passions and obsessions, from TV shows to websites to games and everything else in between. However, we only have so much attention to go around…some less than others, in my case. This is especially true when new things come into play to vie for our attention.

In my own case, I’m suffering from multiple levels of burnout at the moment. The first one is social networking, such as Twitter and Facebook. For a while, I was on these services non-stop, chatting with my friends and wasting time. I’d get SMS updates when friends made new posts and reply to nearly every one. Nowadays, I only dip my toe in the water every so often, and the SMS alerts have been turned off, because it became overwhelming.

I’m also burned out with other things, like reading, sadly. I’m usually a pretty voracious reader, constantly reading books at home or in my iPhone using various apps. Sadly in the last few months, the idea of reading a book has filled me with some dread, so I’ve taken a break from reading, for the most part (at least until the next Dresden Files book comes out next month). Heck, a couple of years ago, I was so burnt out on video games I didn’t play any for nearly two years, but thankfully I slowly got back into them.

What about you? Is there anything you’re burnt out on, geek-wise? I’d love to hear your comments on what you’re currently or previously have been burnt out on, and how you managed to get through it, if at all. With so many forms of entertainment vying for our attention, I’m sure we all have plenty of burnout stories to share, and I look forward to reading yours. Thanks for reading.