• You tickle them under the arm while they are typing and they type LOL on the screen with no other reaction......
  
• Your spouse calls you to dinner by email.
  
• You wake up late at night to the sound of "click, click, click".....from the other room.
  
• Your spouse starts asking you why don't you watch what you want on television tonight.
  
• You call home and always here the beep,beep,beep, and even an emergency breakthrough won't work.
  
• You are sitting around together and your spouse keeps looking longingly at the computer, like you wish he/she looked at you around bedtime...
  
• You go to check your email and find pretzel crumbs in the computer keys.
  
• You start receiving long distance calls from internet people.
  
• The voice on AOL that says, YOU'VE GOT MAIL!, starts to sound like a family friend.
  

You are an Internet Addict when...

This true post. and

1.) You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
2.) You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue as to when it happened.
3.) Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to go from top to bottom.
4.) Your nightmares are in HTML and GIFS.
5.) You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
6.) You start introducing yourself as "Jim at net dot com"
7.) Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address on TV.
8.) You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can =0D hear if new e-mail arrives.
9.) Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
10.) All of your friends have an @ in their names.
11.) When looking at a web page full of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.
12.) Your dog has its own home page.
13.) You can't call your mother... She doesn't have a modem.
14.) You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.
15.) Your phone bill is a heavy as a brick.
16.) You write your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
17.) You don't know the sex of three of your closest friends, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
18.) Your husband tells you that he has had the beard for 2 months.
19.) 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.
20.) You tell the kids they can't use the computer because
"Daddy's got work to do" -- even though you don't have a job.
21.) You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard and mouse.
22.) Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."
23.) You get a tattoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher."
24.) You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your ISP... because you never log off.
25.) The last girl you picked up was only a GIF.
26.) You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.
27.) 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.
28.) As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "back" button.

ummm...
My wife and I met on the Internet. And about 1/4 of our wedding guest were online friends that we were meeting in person for the first time. Does that qualify either of us as Internet addicts?

That's interesting. I've met a few people over the Internet, including my best friend. For single people it can be the best/only way to meet people these days.

I have two brothers. One met his now wife, over the Net and the other met his now, significant other that way too. Each has been in this committed relationship for several years and are happy.

So can you believe everything on the Net, well let me get some prescription drugs and a cable descrambler and I'll let you know after I make $5,000 a week at home, part time.

There is BOL addiction (or so I've heard ) Net addition and in my spouses case, PC card game addiction. But it keeps her off the streets and out of the malls. What can you do!