| You Might be Addicted to the net if ..… 1.Tech Support calls "You" for help. 2.Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL. 3.You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on. 4.You have called out someone's nick name while talking to your significant other. 5.You keep begging your friends to get online "so we can hang out." 6.Three words: Carpal tunnel syndrome. 7.You want to meet a girl/guy and your first impulse is to turn on your computer. 8.You've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face. 9.You have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's. 10.You have ever joined "Si habla Espanol" (Spanish chat room) "just to work on your Spanish." 11.You've ever typed "drinking on net is better than drinking alone." 12.You go into labor and you stop to type a special e-mail message letting everyone know you're going to be away. 13.You have a vanity car tag with your nick name on it 14.You no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences. 15.You have met over 100 chatters. 16.You begin to say "he he he" instead of laughing. 17.When someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!" 18.You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep. 19.You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know you are online again. 20.You know more about your chat friends' daily routines than you do your own spouse's. 21.You find yourself lying to others about your time on-line and when they complain that your phone was busy, you claim it was off the hook. 22.You have an identity crisis if someone else is using a nickname close to your own. 23.You would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying to much instead of the truth (all night online). 24.You change nickname so much that you have to get your profile to see who you are (identity crisis here). 25.You're broke, your modem burns out and you go out onto the streets to sell your body to get a new one. 26.You open your home to 15 strangers for a week merely because they have computers and cool nicknames. 27.Your kids are standing at your side saying "mommy, please come cook dinner" and you would rather type another "LOL". 28.You marry your cyberboyfriend/cybergirlfriend and you both sit at yourown computers and chat to each other every night from across the room. 29.You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time. 30.You won't work at a job that doesn't have a modem involved. 31.Your dog leaves you. 32.You have to ask what year it is. 33.You are doing things more and more that you swore you would never ever do when you first found chat. 34.You write a letter like this..."dear tom, hiyas! how r u doin well I gotta go bbl!" 35.You name your pets after people with whom you talk online. 36.You smile sideways. :-) 37.You log on and immediately get 10 messages from people who have you on their buddy lists . 38.You have a map on the wall with red thumbtacks to mark where people you have met. (Continued on next page) |
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