Entry: You Know You're Addicted to the Internet When... Sunday, April 03, 2005



So all the following things are true or about true about me:

Your eyeglasses have a web site burned into them.

You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to Google.

You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines.

You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a laptop.


You turn your computer off and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug of your loved one.

Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address printed on the TV, even though you've never had heart problems before.

Looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice that you've been to all of them.

You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.

You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest MP3's off Kazaa Lite.

You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back.

You forget what year it is.

You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

You start using smileys in your snail mail.

You bring a bag lunch to the computer.

You have withdrawals if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.

You take a speed reading course to keep up with the scrolling.

You type faster than you think.

You double click your TV remote.

You can now type over 70 WPM.

You check your e-mail and forget you have real mail.

You have "Googled" all your friends to try to find out anything interesting that they are not telling you and you can use against them later.

The sound of the keys clicking turns you on.

You have more browsers than friends in the real world.

You actually say I-M-O and A-T-M to real friends rather than 'in my opinion' and 'at the moment'. And they give you strange looks.

You say "he he he he" or "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.

You talk on the phone with the same person you are sending an instant message to.

You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

You look at an annoying person off line and wish that you had your ignore button handy.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to the internet.

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