Top 10 Ways to Know You Are Addicted to the Internet

  • You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built in keyboard and mouse.
  • Your dog has its own home page.
  • You leave the modem speaker on after connecting because you think it sounds like the ocean wind the perfect soundtrack for “surfing the net”.
  • 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.
  • You realize there is not a sound in the house and you have no idea where your children are.
  • You can’t call your mother, she doesn’t have a modem.
  • You are so familiar with the WWW that you find the search engines useless.
  • All of your friends have an @ in their names.
  • All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net: 28.8, ISDN, cable modem, T1, T3.
  • You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.