TO ALL>
A little fun reading following on this lonnnnng week-end!
> YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN ONLINE TOO LONG IF:
> *1. Tech Support calls "YOU" for help.
> *2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL" out loud.
> *3. You find yourself trying to cock your head 90 degrees when you smile.
> *4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your
> significant other.
> *5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out".
> *6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
> *7. If you are male and see a female in the "Real" world that you wish to
> meet, your first thought is to IM her.
> *8. If you are female and you see a male in the "Real" world that you
> wish
> to meet, your first thought is that you wish he'd IM you.
> *9. You don't understand the humor in the above mentioned #7 and #8 since
> the "real" world is at your fingertips.
> *10. You have to get a 2nd phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut.
> *11. When you have sex, you no longer are concerned about sexually
> transmitted diseases.
> *12. You walk into a room, and, finding that it has more than 23 people, you
> inform management that there is an error.
> *13. When looking at signs, you wonder why they are always "yelling" at you.
> *14. You go up to people you are attracted to "in real life" and ask them
> for
> their GIF.
> *15. Although you don't know what they look like, you become insanely
> jealous
> of people hitting on your cyber-love.
> *16. You don't even know what your cyber-love looks like.
> *17. When at work, your boss constantly reminds you that the word i should
> be
> capitalized.
> *18. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.
> *19. Your spouse now complains of you moving your fingers in your sleep
> instead of talking.
> *20. Your kids are eating cereal morning, noon, and night.
> *21. When someone says, "What did you say?" you reply, "Scroll up!"
> *22. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the
> night when your spouse is asleep.
> *23. You turn down the lights & close the blinds so people won't know you're
> on-line again.
> *24. You know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your
> own spouse's.
> *25. You find yourself lying to others about your time on-line & when they
> complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook.
> *26. You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to
> your own.
> *27. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying
> too much than the truth (online all night).
> *28. You change your screen names so much that you have to look at your own
> profile to see who you are.
> *29. You go into labor and you stop to type a special E-mail to let everyone
> know you're going to be away and how you're feeling.
> *30. You marry your cyberboyfriend/girlfriend and you both sit at your own
> computers & chat to each other every night from across the room.
> *31. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the
> same time.
> *32. You understand the humor in all of these jokes because you have
> committed them yourself!
> *33. Your dog leaves you.
> *34. You are doing things more and more that you swore you would never do
> when you first got online.
> *35. You sign on & immediately get 10 IMs from people who have you on their
> buddy list.
> *36. You have a map on the wall w/ LOTS of red thumbtacks to mark where
> people are you have met.
> *37. You look at an annoying person off-line & wish you had your ignore
> button handy.
> *38. You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer.
> *39. Your significant other kisses your neck while you're chatting & you
> think "uh oh, cyber sex perv".
> *40. You go thru "withdrawal" if you are away from the computer for more
> than
> a few hours.
> *41. Your buddy list has over 100 people on it.
> *42. You understand what BIF ISO BIM means. (I wonder how many will get this
> one...If so, you've been hanging out in *strange* places).
> *43. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online
> before you have your first cup of coffee.
> *44. You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake.
> *45. You have your computer set so it goes directly into AOL's welcome
> screen.
> *46. You wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home
> from
> work.
> *47. You don't know where the time has gone.
> *48. You end sentences with 3 (or more) periods while writing letters by
> hand.
> *49. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have
> had.
> *50. You get up at 2 am to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer
> instead.
> *51. You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo.
> *52. You enter a room & 23 people greet you w/ {{hugs}} or **kisses**.
> *53. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme.
> *54. Your voicemail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n & I
> will TTYL".
> *55. You type faster than you think.
> *56. You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too & are now undergoing
> therapy in private rooms instead of at his office.
> *57. You want to be buried with your computer when it dies or vice versa.
> *58. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.
> *59. You can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls
> up
> your TV screen at the end of a movie.
> *60. People say, "If it weren't for your super reflexes in your eyes &
> fingers, you would have been classified as a vegetable!"
> *61. You dream in "text".
> *62. Being called a Newbie is a "MAJOR" insult.
> *63. There is absolutely no interesting chat in any room & you're really
> bored.
> *64. You don't want to leave in case you miss something.
> *65. You double click your TV remote.
> *66. You can now type over 70 wpm.
> *67. You think about starting a 12-step recovery group for AOL junkies.
> *68. You are on the phone a minute & need to do something else & say "BRB"
> or "BBL".
> *69. You check your E-mail and forget you have real mail (a.k.a. snail
> mail).
> *70. You go into withdrawals during dinner.
> *71. You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone
> in
> a room.
> *72. You stop speaking in full sentences.
> *73. You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room & ended up "giving"
> tech support to other AOLers.
> *74. You have to be pried from your computer by the "Jaws of Life".
> *75. Your last sexual experience was really just a "textual" experience.
> *76. You know what a "snert" is.
> *77. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to
> "check your mail" & while there you "just wanted to see who was online".
> *78. You meet people from AOL in public & you have no idea what their real
> name is, so you call them by their screen name.
> *79. You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.
> *80. When seeing someone you wish to meet, your second thought is wishing
> they'd be on AOL so you don't have to meet them in person.
> *81. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.
> *82. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete
> sentences.
> *83. You have met over 100 AOLers.
> *84. When meeting a stranger, you ask for their profile. If they have a
> profile you ask for an age/sex/location check.
> *85. You understand the humor in all of this.
out of *85, how many would you check YES!! |
