After reading the comments from yesterday’s post as well as on my Life on the Strip Google cartoon, I realized I am not alone with my addiction to Mr. Internet.
Many of you relate to my deep feelings for my computer. And in case you’re not sure where you stand on the internet addiction spectrum, here are some tell-tale signs that you too, are addicted:
- Something exciting happens in your life and your first thought is to email a blog friend.
- You’re in a bad mood because a stranger said something mean to you inside your computer.
- Your computer has a spot at the dinner table and you ask it how its day was.
- You decline invitations to leave your home so that you can snuggle up with your computer.
- You check your email/Facebook/Twitter/Blog comments no less than 40 times a day.
- The thought of leaving your computer in the shops for a week is enough to send you into cardiac arrest.
- You’re willing to sacrifice your relationship with a loved one for an entertaining blog post.
- After finding every person you can possibly think of on Facebook you start befriending other people’s friends figuring you must have something in common if you both like the same person.
- Your sister is unable to reach you by phone, but gets instant replies to the emails she sends you.
- Your family is hungry.
- Google is your doctor.
- Your computer has a pet name…like Mr. Woodcock…for example.
- You contemplate the harm in taking your computer into the bathroom with you.
- You mention your blog to strangers at the mall.
- You forgot the color of your husband’s eyes.
- You look forward to nap time each day because it equals guilt free time with Mr. Woodcock…YOUR COMPUTER.
- You ask your computer if your jeans look fat on you.
- And then you both start laughing because you don’t even WEAR jeans anymore.
- Who needs to dress up when you spend the entire day in front of the computer?
- You think wearing jeans is dressing up.
Where do you fall on the spectrum?
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21. Your computer calls to from several rooms away at 4:30 in the morning and your grudgingly get up to see what it wants and then romance it until it’s time to wake the kids. Or maybe that just me.
Oh, I’m in trouble.
Do I see a need for a support group? We could set up an online chat room to meet and discuss our internet addiction.
When my laptop died about 2 weeks ago, I seriously thought I was going into crack withdrawls. And I’m definitely the one up between 4-5 am, sitting in my recliner with my laptop and a hot cup of coffee. Sweet, sweet, me time!
You writing blog posts in your head during the day.
Your computer is the one that keeps you company when you have insomnia.
You’re more excited about sharing exciting news on your blog than with your “real” friends.
22. You take your Blackberry to the bathroom with you at work so that you don’t miss an email and/or you can check Twitter.
Well, I scrolled down to look at the picture and realized I was sitting the exact same way… pinky practically in my eye and my ring turned to the side and everything… so I’d say we’ve got an identical case of computer posture. And a nearly identical case of internet addiction. Google is SO my doctor! Plus I set my tweets up to text my husband’s phone… so he will know what’s going on in my life. :-)
Yep…this is me. And wearing jeans is totally dressing up when you’re sporting yoga pants all the time ;)
I am in trouble…this is all me. I actually told someone the other day – I don’t talk on the phone anymore – email me. And I have said to people many many times – your are more likely to know what is going on with me if you read my blog. It seems like lately I do more typing then talking.
Right there…except I don’t have my own blog. But in addition to Facebook and the hundreds of blogs I read…I subscribe to a yahoo group for child careproviders which generates several hundred emails per day. Oiy! Hurry up naptime!
Oh. It’s not normal to sit your computer at the dinner table and ask how it’s day was?
Darn it.
Love, Becky who is WAY too addicted : (
I belong on this spectrum.
you take pictures specifically with your blogging in mind.
you would rather curl up with your laptop than watch a good chick flick.
google IS my doctor
you stay up late at night thinking of things to blog about.
you no longer subscribe to any magazine…who needs recipes, makeup tips, enteratining mommy articles…it’s all here in blogland, and much more enjoyable.
Um, this is hilarious. But also sad, because I fit almost ALL of those descriptions. 9, 10 & 11 made me laugh out loud. #1,4, 5, & 6 made me nod my head furiously. The whole post makes me smile because I know I am not alone in my obsession!
Wow, I just realized that I AM HUNGRY. Talk about addiction.
My computers name is Mr. Furzenpers. Named after my cat. Who’s name isn’t Mr. Furzenpers. Hm.
All of the above for me…….even on the comments, lol.
Wait, wearing jeans isn’t considered dressing up? Crap, I’m screwed. Good thing I haven’t been invited to a wedding in over a year, who knows what I’d wear.
But if I never click OFF my email, twitter, etc., then it’s just really once a day, right?
Um, I have totally taken the computer into the bathroom with me. (I have a netbook, it’s TOTALLY doable…even if it wrong on every other account.)
My husband refers to my computer as my “crack.” I need my fix!
Oh dear God… This must be retweeted and READ by every person I know!!!
This is 100% true… ALL of it.
shit, maybe that’s a problem!!
LOVE IT!
Wait. Is there a…problem…with this behaviour? It sounds like a happy, blissful nirvana to me.
I get the shakes when my husband sits at the computer too long. *hands vibrate*
This is great. You know its bad when your son says “You look funny!” when he actually sees you in full make-up and hair fixed.
You know you are addicted to the internet when you twitpic people pictures of your twitter screen! ~Chris Ann
23. A quiet moment of *me* time in the doctor’s waiting room is actually spent updating Twitter/Facebook and catching up on blogs you missed while driving TO the doc’s office
We started out with just the desktop. But every once in awhile, like when I’d wander in the kitchen to fix myself a sandwich (quickly) I’d come back to find Hub sitting in MY chair at MY desk using MY computer. So we bought a laptop (we were planning a trip and I told him we needed it to keep in touch with family and friends while we were gone – like some of you, I don’t do phone if I can help it). Now HE has a computer and stays away from MY desktop. Then, when I was getting ready to go to visit my son in Korea this past spring, I decided I NEEDED to buy something to take with me, because I certainly couldn’t take the desktop, and Hub said no to HIS laptop, and I COULDN’T be without a computer. A netbook seemed perfect. And is. It’s easy to carry into the bathroom, fits nicely in my lap in the evening as “we watch TV”, and also fits nicely into my purse when we go somewhere that I might have a few unoccupied moments. Also, if we travel, wherever we say MUST have free wifi.
hahaha! That was hilarious! Except that now I guess I have to join Internet Junkies Anonymous, because unfortunately I agreed with way too many of those :)
I’m just glad to know I’m not the only one! My husband, my kids, heck, even my dogs, are jealous of my computer. If I’m not giving them the attention they want, they just climb right up on top of the laptop so that I’m forced to pet them…the dogs I mean, not the husband or the kids.
Why can’t we all just get along? There’s no room for this jealousy. ;)
I have nothing germane to conversation to add, but I do want to tell you (AGAIN) that I think you’re really pretty. #KathyIsPretty!”
Um. I think that last comment should be number #21. You tell your friends way too frequently that you think they are pretty since it’s a cyber compliment.
I. AM. SO. SCREWED.
We all are hone. We all are.
Change “Mr. Woodcock” to “My Precious” and you are officially living my life. Have you installed hidden cameras over here?!
Ya, I have to agree with many of these. I am addicted, and it drives my husband crazy! Oh well!
And I didn’t think you could get any funnier than you did on the last post – but you did. We’re doing a 30 days of intimacy on my blog, challenging people to do this with their mates for 30 days – and I truly believe, for some, Internet is going to interfere with that! I am NOT going to tell you where I fall on the spectrum ’cause then you might think I’m addicted or something!!!
This is so funny and so sadly true! The thing I loved the most about the picture was what seems to be a very lonely vacuum behind you! Vacuum or blog… hmmmm… the choice is so easy!
I’m glad you posted this. I had no idea how far gone I was.
#1 #5 #11- Oh Boy!!! Guess I am addicted!
OH GOSH…. I left ciggarettes for this….
Is there somthing Internet addictions annonimous?!
By the way, how did you know me so well…lol
Hello I am Lauren, I am addicted to my laptop…. ;)
LOL i wrote a post like that too but never posted it. yours is way funny and i think i am pretty addicted right now. starting a blog only made things worse. WAY worse.
Umm is your computers name Mr. Woodcock??
This, too, is hilarious. I smiled all the way through it (for no particular reason, of course. I have no idea what you’re talking about, though I’ll admit to being thrilled that my husband is gone for the day and I will have no computer guilt!haha)
BTW, I’m linking this one up on Saturday :)
Totally addicted. lol
Dr. Google has been my first go-to-doctor for years…. he makes me crazy, and does not help my anxieties– but he sure does know a lot about a lot of really scary things.
Why do these sound so familiar? Hmmm.
And how about that feeling of agitation when someone else asks to use the computer and you know you have to give it up for a few minutes. Heaven forbid.
Great list. I strongly identify with 1,5,6,7,11, 13,14, and 18-20. Umm, do I have a problem?