From: "keri" <keri-AT-uka.co.uk>
Subject: YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN ONLINE TOO LONG IF: 
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:55:34 +0100


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Thought I'd share since I spend the majority
of my waking hours online and get paid for most
of it!

Keri aka Technical Support

>  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 cyberfriends' 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.

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