Just Found Out I'm Addicted to the Internet!

• you just chatted with someone from South-Africa and Australia, but you never even talked to your neighbors next door
• when someone said "I saw you last night......", you reply "No, that was my shortcut"

Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Melanie said:

how about :

• you just chatted with someone from South-Africa and Australia,

but you never even talked to your neighbors next door

• when someone said "I saw you last night......", you reply "No,

that was my shortcut"

Mel.com

Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Howard said:

Thats a great list - Especially #1 - Me and my finace are looking
for a house, and after every one we like, I sign online and check
for Cable modem availability!!! LOL!!!!

Melanie said:

how about :

• you just chatted with someone from South-Africa and Australia,

but you never even talked to your neighbors next door

• when someone said "I saw you last night......", you reply "No,

that was my shortcut"

Mel.com

Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Sharon said:

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

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Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Diane Mann said:

Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Member said:

Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Shaun Fenton said:

All,
Seeing this thread reminded me of a previous list which I posted in
January with contributions from my old buddy Bryan Siverly and
someone else (LK I think). For those of you unable to recognise the
signs of dpreview addiction, here it is again.

Like most forms of addiction, the dpreview addict is probably the
last person to realise that he has problem until its too late. So
what are some of the early symptoms to look for? I'm sure there
must be loads, but here are just a few suggestions:
1) You find yourself composing your next post in your head before
you've even finished composing the shot.
2) Each time you see your kids, they seem to have grown since the
last time you saw them.
3) Your wife is fast asleep in bed most nights by the time you
finally log off the forum and get to bed yourself.
4) You don't have time to wory about spelingg, just so long as you
keep on posting.
5) Abbreviations like LOL and IMHO start occurring in your
conversations and nobody understands a word you're saying.
6) You start to suffer memory lapses.
7) Each time you see your kids, they seem to have grown since the
last time you saw them.
8) As you're walking down the street you can actually see the
purple fringing round tree branches.
9) You start off posting photos of your family on the forum, but
after months of neglect and being ignored, they finally abandon you
and your only option is to post boring macro shots of plants and
flowers.
10) You get home from work and the kids are there playing their
computer games, so you panic and rush them off to bed just so you
can log onto the forum.
11) You shut your finger in your car door and found yourself
yelling, "Ahhh, Nikon!"
12) You view festivals such as Thanks-Giving and Christmas as a
race to see if you can post your festive photos before anyone else
(as if nobody else has ever seen a family sitting down to a meal or
kids opening presents).
13) You view family events (such as the birth of your child) purely
as another photographic challenge.
14) You regularly have exchanges with Nahau from Hawaii, Bryan from
Illinois, Hatem from Cairo, Eric from the UK, Travis from Illinois,
Yang from Hong Kong etc., but you can't remember the last time you
spoke to the guy who lives across the street from your house (in
fact you can't even remember his name).
15) You lose interest in the TV and instead of watching all those
soaps, you look forward to seeing the latest updates on those
emotive threads such as: "Can G1 do this?", "Forget the G1" etc.
16) You take down your framed photo of the Queen (or President) and
replace it with a photo of Phil Askey.
17) You find yourself gazing out of the window on a foggy day and
thinking "I wonder if I could fix that fog in PhotoShop?).
18) You find you've nothing better to do than write irrelevant posts.
19) You replace all your lunch/coffee breaks at work with a
dpreview session.
20 ) You regularly lock yourself in a dark room and shut your eyes
to make sure your retina has not developed "stuck photoreceptors".

Based on my long absence from this forum, I think I've finally been
cured of this addiction.
Regards,

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Sharon said:

Howard said:

Thats a great list - Especially #1 - Me and my finace are looking
for a house, and after every one we like, I sign online and check
for Cable modem availability!!! LOL!!!!

Melanie said:

how about :

• you just chatted with someone from South-Africa and Australia,

but you never even talked to your neighbors next door

• when someone said "I saw you last night......", you reply "No,

that was my shortcut"

Mel.com

Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Danny said:

Hi Sharon ,

Being disabled , my social life is ..... hmm , what is social life ?
Anyway , I have broadband since 5 months now and I can't remember
how it was before .
Hey , I have more buddies now than I had in all my life !
And that's beginning to represent a fairly large amount of years
... ;-)
Thanks to you all for being there .

Danny

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SteveB said:

The real sad truth is that we are all addicted to technology!
Imagine, for a minute, what life would be like without a telephone
or radio? Or even electricity? Wow... we are just on the
ground floor of an emerging technology that will eventually rule
everyone's lives. Imagine having this discussion right after the
light bulb was invented... "You know, I just can't turn off the
lights when the sun goes down. I must be addicted to light bulbs!"
Think about it!

SteveB

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Sharon said:

Uh Oh! I just found out that I'm addicted to the internet! From
Komando.com newsletter.

TOP-10 SIGNS YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET

10. It takes 10 minutes to scroll through your bookmarks.

9. You find yourself racking your brain for new search
subjects.

8. Instead of going to the bathroom, you "download."

7. You'll only go on vacation if there's electricity, a phone
line and a local dial-up number for your ISP.

6. You go on vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem.

5. You find yourself typing .com after every period when using
a word processor.com

4. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

3. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

2. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.

And the top sign you're addicted to the Internet ...

1. You chose the location of your next home based on whether
there's a high-speed broadband connection available.

For Me It Should Be, "Ten Signs I'm Addicted to DP Review"

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Richard said:

Someone told me yesterday that Jack Parr left the Tonight Show! Is
that true?!

--rhb

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Shaun Fenton said:

All,
Seeing this thread reminded me of a previous list which I posted in
January with contributions from my old buddy Bryan Siverly and
someone else (LK I think). For those of you unable to recognise the
signs of dpreview addiction, here it is again.

Like most forms of addiction, the dpreview addict is probably the
last person to realise that he has problem until its too late. So
what are some of the early symptoms to look for? I'm sure there
must be loads, but here are just a few suggestions:
1) You find yourself composing your next post in your head before
you've even finished composing the shot.
2) Each time you see your kids, they seem to have grown since the
last time you saw them.
3) Your wife is fast asleep in bed most nights by the time you
finally log off the forum and get to bed yourself.
4) You don't have time to wory about spelingg, just so long as you
keep on posting.
5) Abbreviations like LOL and IMHO start occurring in your
conversations and nobody understands a word you're saying.
6) You start to suffer memory lapses.
7) Each time you see your kids, they seem to have grown since the
last time you saw them.
8) As you're walking down the street you can actually see the
purple fringing round tree branches.
9) You start off posting photos of your family on the forum, but
after months of neglect and being ignored, they finally abandon you
and your only option is to post boring macro shots of plants and
flowers.
10) You get home from work and the kids are there playing their
computer games, so you panic and rush them off to bed just so you
can log onto the forum.
11) You shut your finger in your car door and found yourself
yelling, "Ahhh, Nikon!"
12) You view festivals such as Thanks-Giving and Christmas as a
race to see if you can post your festive photos before anyone else
(as if nobody else has ever seen a family sitting down to a meal or
kids opening presents).
13) You view family events (such as the birth of your child) purely
as another photographic challenge.
14) You regularly have exchanges with Nahau from Hawaii, Bryan from
Illinois, Hatem from Cairo, Eric from the UK, Travis from Illinois,
Yang from Hong Kong etc., but you can't remember the last time you
spoke to the guy who lives across the street from your house (in
fact you can't even remember his name).
15) You lose interest in the TV and instead of watching all those
soaps, you look forward to seeing the latest updates on those
emotive threads such as: "Can G1 do this?", "Forget the G1" etc.
16) You take down your framed photo of the Queen (or President) and
replace it with a photo of Phil Askey.
17) You find yourself gazing out of the window on a foggy day and
thinking "I wonder if I could fix that fog in PhotoShop?).
18) You find you've nothing better to do than write irrelevant posts.
19) You replace all your lunch/coffee breaks at work with a
dpreview session.
20 ) You regularly lock yourself in a dark room and shut your eyes
to make sure your retina has not developed "stuck photoreceptors".

Based on my long absence from this forum, I think I've finally been
cured of this addiction.
Regards,

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