You've Been Online Too Long If...

  1. Although you don't know what they look like, you become insanely jealous of people hitting on your cyber-love.
  2. Being called a Newbie is a "MAJOR" insult.
  3. 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.
  4. If you are male and see a female in the "Real" world that you wish to meet, your first thought is to IM her.
  5. People say, "If it weren't for your super reflexes in your eyes and fingers, you would have been classified as a vegetable!"
  6. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL" out loud.
  7. Tech Support calls "YOU" for help.
  8. There is absolutely no interesting chat in any room & you're really bored.
  9. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
  10. When at work, your boss constantly reminds you that the word i should be capitalized.
  11. When looking at signs, you wonder why they are always "yelling" at you.
  12. When meeting a stranger, you ask for their profile. If they have a profile you ask them for an age/sex/location check.
  13. When seeing someone you wish to meet, your second thought is wishing they'd be on AOL so you don't have to meet them in person.
  14. When someone online says BRB, gotta go pee, you ask them to go for you, and think they can.
  15. When someone says, "What did you say?" you reply, "Scroll up!"
  16. When you have sex, you no longer are concerned about sexually transmitted diseases.
  17. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.
  18. You are doing things more and more that you swore you would never do when you first got online.
  19. You are on the phone a minute & need to do something else & say "BRB" or "BBL".
  20. You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer.
  21. You can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie.
  22. You can now type over 70 wpm.
  23. You change your screen names so much that you have to look at your own profile to see who you are.
  24. You check your E-mail and forget you have real mail (a.k.a. snail mail).
  25. You don't even know what your cyber-love looks like.
  26. You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo.
  27. You don't know where the time has gone.
  28. You don't understand the humor in the above mentioned #7 and #8 since the "real" world is at your fingertips.
  29. You don't want to leave in case you miss something.
  30. You double click your TV remote.
  31. You dream in "text".
  32. You end sentences with 3 (or more) periods while writing letters by hand.
  33. You enter a room & 23 people greet you w/ {{hugs}} or **kisses**.
  34. 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.
  35. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.
  36. You find yourself trying to cock your head 90 degrees when you smile.
  37. You get up at 2 am to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead.
  38. You go into labor and you stop to type a special E-mail to let everyone know you're going to be away and how you're feeling.
  39. You go into withdrawals during dinner.
  40. You go thru "withdrawal" if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.
  41. You go up to people you are attracted to "in real life" and ask them for their GIF.
  42. You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too & are now undergoing therapy in private rooms instead of at his office.
  43. You have a map on the wall w/LOTS of red thumbtacks to mark where people are you have met.
  44. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.
  45. You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own. 27. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth (online all night).
  46. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.
  47. You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room & ended up "giving" tech support to other AOLers.
  48. You have met over 100 AOLers.
  49. You have to be pried from your computer by the "Jaws of Life".
  50. You have to get a 2nd phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut.
  51. You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake.
  52. You have your computer set so it goes directly into AOL's welcome screen.
  53. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out".
  54. You keep telling yourself to Get a Life.
  55. You know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your own spouse's.
  56. You know what a "snert" is.
  57. You look at an annoying person off-line & wish you had your ignore button handy.
  58. You marry your cyberboyfriend/girlfriend and you both sit at your own computers & chat to each other every night from across the room.
  59. You meet people from AOL in public & you have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their screen name.
  60. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences.
  61. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to "check your mail" & while there you "just wanted to see who was online".
  62. You sign on & immediately get 10 IMs from people who have you on their buddy list.
  63. You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone in a room.
  64. You stop speaking in full sentences.
  65. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme.
  66. You think about starting a 12-step recovery group for AOL junkies.
  67. You turn down the lights & close the blinds so people won't know you're on-line again.
  68. You type faster than you think.
  69. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.
  70. You understand the humor in all of these jokes because you have committed them yourself!
  71. You understand the humor in all of this.
  72. You understand what BIF ISO BIM means. (I wonder how many will get this one...If so,you've been hanging out in *strange* places).
  73. You wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home from work.
  74. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your first cup of coffee.
  75. You walk into a room, and, finding that it has more than 23 people, you inform management that there is an error.
  76. You want to be buried with your computer when it dies or vice versa.
  77. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.
  78. You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.
  79. Your buddy list has over 100 people on it.
  80. Your dog leaves you.
  81. Your kids are eating cereal morning, noon, and night.
  82. Your last sexual experience was really just a "textual" experience.
  83. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.
  84. Your significant other kisses your neck while you're chatting and you think, "Uh oh, cyber sex perv".
  85. Your spouse now complains ofyou moving your fingers in your sleep instead of talking.
  86. Your voicemail/answeringmachine message is "BRB, leave your s/n & I will TTYL".