50 Ways to know you've been online too long :-) I think this was around the time when the original NDA Thread was created by myself, cl0ck'd & a few others.
01. Technical Support calls "YOU" for help.
02. Someone at work tells you a joke & you say LOL out loud.
03. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out".
04. You've to get a 2nd phone line so you can call Pizza Hut.
05. You don't know where the time has gone.
06. Your girlfriend now complains of you moving your fingers in your sleep instead of talking.
07. Your kids are eating cereal morning, noon, and night.
08. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your wife is asleep.
09. You find yourself lying 2 others about your time online.
10. You'd rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying 2 much than the truth - online all night.
11. Your dog leaves you. Your wife threatens to...
12. You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.
13. You have a map on the wall with lots of red pins to mark where people are you have met.
14. You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer.
15. You go thru "withdrawal" if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.
16. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you've your first cup of coffee.
17. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.
18. You get up at 2 a.m. to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead.
19. You stop typing whole words and use things like brb, dunno and :-)
20. You type faster than you think.
21. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.
22. You dream in "text".
23. You double click your TV remote.
24. You check your E-mail and forget you have real mail.
25. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to "check your mail"
26. You have more conversations online than you do IRL (in real life)
27. You have more MP3's than actual CD's
28. You measure the amount of music you have in GB
29. The only wife you have, you married online and have never met IRL
30. 3pm is still the morning
31. When filling out your driver's license application you give your IP address.
32. You no longer ask prospective dates what their sign is; instead your line is "Hi, what's your URL?"
33. Instead of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends email.
34. You're amazed to find out spam is a food.
35. Your desk looks like the control station at NASA
36. You search the Net endlessly hoping to win every silly free T-shirt contest.
37. You introduce your wife as "my lady@home.wife" and refer to your children as "client applications".
38. At social functions you introduce your husband as "my domain server".
39. After winning the office super bowl pool you blurt out, "I feel so "colon-right parentheses!"
40. You buy stuff for your PC, even if it means you can't eat for a month!
41. You have memorized the win98/2k serial number
42. Everything is within arms reach of your computer desk
43. ......everything that isn't is voice activated
44. You have memorized the sound your modem makes, and occasionally hummm along!
45. You have your e-mails re-directed to your phone
46. You know the clock speed of your calculator
47. ......and have overclocked it!
48. You have more computers than your local re-seller
49. Your diet consists entirely of Pringles/crisps/coke/coffee/ and you treat yourself to a micro'd meal
50. You can't read from anything that isn't refreshing @ 85Hz
... And they're just the first symptoms
I am acquainted too well with too many of those :lol:
You'll probably have noticed the NDA thread is still around too
Lol some of those actually ring very true.My sisters & brothers say i,m a bad role model for their kids because they complain that Uncle Steve plays all night on his PC why can't they ?.
51. Your dreams take place in an on line game.
Yes, I do this on occasion, and worse, I do a lot of vivid dreaming.