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You Know You're An Internet Junkie When...
You Know You're An Internet Junkie When...
- You wake up at 3 AM to go to the bathroom and bring your BlackBerry with you to check your e-mail.
- You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Internet Explorer 7 or higher."
- You nickname your children Firefox and Thunderbird.
- You call your family to dinner by sending them Twitter "tweets."
- You turn off your computer and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
- You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
- You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
- You laugh at people that still use DSL.
- You start using smileys in your "snail mail."
- Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours and you start to twitch and whimper.
- You try to hum to communicate with a faxmodem...and you succeed.
- You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com.
- You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
- You start introducing yourself as "John Doe at comcast dot net."
- All of your friends have an @ in their names.
- FaceBook is your primary means of communication with family.
- Your pet has its own home page.
- You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
- Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
- You don't know what sex three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
- You tell the cab driver you live at "http://1276_N._92nd_St/house/brick.html."
- You start tilting your head sideways to smile.