The Internet: Are You Addicted? Tech Support calls "You" for help. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL. When someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!" You have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's. You have to be pried from your computer with the Jaws-of-Life. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it. You no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences. You begin to say heh heh heh instead of laughing. You know more about your online friends daily routines than you do your own family's. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out". You meet people from the Internet in public and have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their screen name. You have an identity crisis if someone else is using an s/n close to your own. You would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much instead of the truth (all night online). You marry your cyber boyfriend and you both sit at your own computers and chat to each other every night from across the room. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time. You won't work at a job that doesn't have a modem involved. You sign on and immediately get 10 messages from people who have you on their buddy lists. You look at an annoying person off-line and wish you had your ignore button handy. You have withdrawals if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours. You use Internet lingo in everyday life (if you still have one...hehehe). Your buddy list has over 100 people on it. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get on-line before you have your first cup of coffee. You wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to sign on. You don't know where the time has gone. You end sentences with three (or more) periods while writing letters in pen/pencil. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had. You get up at 2am to go the bathroom but go turn on your computer instead. You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo. When you enter a room and 23 people greet you with {{{Hugs}}} or ***Kisses***. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme. Your voicemail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n and I will TTYL". You type faster than you think. Being called a newbie is a *MAJOR* insult. You are on the phone for a min. and need to do something else you say "BRB" or "BBL". You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say good-bye to everyone in a chat room.