Christine,
A gentle webnapping relevant to your web relationships post! This gives the broad picture of how enmeshed we become. But we have to wonder why we do it!!
Well, it isn't just to know how to work https!!! It is obvious from seeing how many posts people make, not to mention prolific email, that there is a lot coming out of this related to more than investment. I know for myself that there are people here I enjoy talking to a lot more than most of the people who randomly appear in my busy enough 3D world. Out of 78 000 SI members, not to mention 30 million or something Web participants, it seems easy to meet up with like minded people. And of course, emotional attachment soon follows.
It looks to me very like a new reality. Stumbling and blundering, disconnected by ISPs, miscues and problems, but look at us all hanging in here! I love it. I need a regular fix. But I can handle it.
I think.
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From: Chris Parenti <Margined@concentric.net>
You know you've been online too long....
*When filling out your driver's license application, you give your IP
address.
*You no longer ask prospective dates what their sign is, instead your
line is "Hi, what's your URL?"
*Instead of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.
*You're amazed to find out Spam is a food.
*You introduce your wife as "my_lady@home.wife" and refer to your
children as "client*applications."
*At social functions you introduce your husband as "my domain erver.
*You ask a friend, "What's that big shiny thing?" He says, "It's the
sun."
*You think Webster's Dictionary is a directory of WEB sites.
*When using your phone you forget that you don't have to use your
keyboard.
*You log-off your system because it's time to go to work.
*While reading a magazine, you look for the Zoom icon for a better
look at a photograph.
*Someone tells you to remember something, and you look for File/Save command.
*You find it easier to dial-up the National Weather Service
Weather/your_town/now.html than to*simply look out the window.
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*You find yourself engaged to someone you've never actually met,
except through e-mail.
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*Your desk collapses under the weight of your computer peripherals.
*You can access the Net - via your portable and cellular phone.
*You put your e-mail address in the upper left-hand corner of
envelopes.
*You maintain more than six e-mail addresses.
*You use more than 20 passwords.
*You set up your own Web page. You set up a Web page for each of your kids... and your pets.
You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
*You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape
Navigator 2.0 or higher."
*You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
*You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you
just pulled the plug on a *loved one.
*You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap... and
your child in the overhead
*compartment.
*You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just
for the free Internet access.
*You laugh at people with 2400-baud modems.
*You start using smileys in your snail mail.
*The last girl you picked up was a JPEG.
*You can write a list like this.
*You can relate to a list like this.
*Then I thought, you really know you've been online too long when:
*You decide to stay in a low-paying job teaching just for the free
Internet access.
*You turn down a better-paying job because it doesn't come with a
free e-mail account.
*You use up your free 100 hours in less than a week.
*You have your own domain name.
*You know the meaning of bcc.
*You know what @ and ~ are called.
*You know the difference between the htm and html extensions.
*You bring your laptop and cellular phone to church.
*You know how to send file attachments.
*You down your lunch in five minutes, at your desk, so you can spend
the rest of the hour surfing the Net.
*Your Internet group window has more icons than your Accessories
window.
*You are more comfortable typing in html.
*You can add to this list.
*You are no longer satisfied with your 28.8 kbps modem and you want a 33.6 kbps instead.
*You can't get out of your desk even if it's time to eat or time to
go to the bathroom.
*You keep tracking down the email addresses of all your friends (even
childhood friends)
*You have more than 100 websites in your Bookmark.
*You have an impression that everybody has an e-mail address
*You use www.switchboard.com instead of dialing 411 and 555-12-12 for directory assistance.
*You forget your friend's name but not her e-mail address.
*You're always in the chat room.
*You overstay in the office so you can have more time surfing the net.
*You try to look for Net Search even when you're in File Manager.
*You're an active member of more than 20 newsgroups.
*You use your e-mail address instead of your name in writing a letter.
*You start dreaming about web pages, html.
*You send more than 20 personal e-mails a day.
*You spend so much time thinking what to add on this list.
*When you've memorized your email and URL addresses, but have to stop and think about your street address.
*Your doctor adivses you to buy an orthopedic index finger brace. |
