Internet Addiction Symptoms

Symptoms you're addicted to the Internet:

• You kiss your girlfriend's home page.
  
  
• Your bookmark menu takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
  
  
• Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.
  
  
• You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
  
  
• You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines.
  
  
• You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a laptop.
  
  
• You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap... and your child in the overhead compartment.
  
  
• All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net: ...ISDN... cable modem... T1... T3.
  
  
• You dream in HTML.
  
  
• You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
  
  
• Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never had heart problems before.
  
  
• You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue when it happened.
  
  
• You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
  
  
• You refer to all of your friends with an @ in their names.
  
  
• When looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.
  
  
• Your dog has his own home page.
  
  
• Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months.
  
  
• You can't call your mother... she doesn't have a modem.
  
  
• Your wife says communication is important in a marriage... so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.
  

[ Author Unknown -- from 'Colorado Comments' ]