You Know You've Been Online Too Long
When.....
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 humour 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 that 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. 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 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 and 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 and 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 labour and you s top 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 won computers and 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 humour in all of these jokes because
you have committed then 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 and 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 ar an annoying person off-line and wish
you had your ignore button handy.
38. You bring a bag lunch and a cooler to the computer.
39. Your significant other kisses your neck while you're
chatting and you thing , "uh oh, cyber sex perv."
40. You go through "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 and 23 people greet you w/ {{hugs}}
or **kisses**.
53. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl,
dunno, and lemme.
54. Your voice mail/answering machine message is "BRB,
leave your s/n and i will TTYL".
55. You type faster than you think.
56. You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too and
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 real and 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 and 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
and 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 thing about starting a 12-step recovery group
for AOL junkies.
68. You are on the phone a minute and need to do something
else and 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
good-bye to everyone in a room.
72. You stop speaking in full sentences.
73. You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room
and 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 "textural"
experience.
76. You know what a "snert" is.
77. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner
because you wanted to "check you mail" and while there you "just wanted
to see who was online".
78. You meet people from AOL in public and 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
folds 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.
85. If they have a profile you ask them for an age/sex/location
check.
86. You understand the humour in all of this.
87. You keep telling yourself to Get a Life.
88. When someone online says BRB, gotta go pee, you ask
them to go for you, and think they can.
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