Internet Addiction

Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows.

  Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. (John F. Kennedy)

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You are an internet addict if ...

• You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.

• Your bookmark list takes 15 minutes to go from top to bottom.

• Your nightmares are in HTML and GIFS.

• You start introducing yourself as "Jim at net dot com."

• Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address on TV.

• You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.

• All of your friends have an @ in their names.

• Your dog has its own home page.

• You can't call your mother ... She doesn't have a modem.

• Your phone bill is as heavy as a brick.

• You don't know the sex of three of your closest friends because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.

• Your husband tells you that he has had the beard for 2 months.

• You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

• Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."

• You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.

• 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.

Is the boy genius?