• You sit in front of your PC even when you have nothing important to do ON it, just because the chair is now your ass’s permanent docking cradle.
  • In your plans to buy a new home, the first item on your checklist is “check on available broadband services”. The most high-tech and connected communities are at the top of your list, even it costs $300 per square foot.
  • The second item on your checklist is, how long it takes to get your PC plugged in and online.
  • When you’re chatting and your IM client goes “so and so is typing a message” and then stops, and then it appears again, and then a message like “hehehe” appears, and you’re like, “hmm, I wonder what was it he wanted to say originally?”
  • You check your blog at least 20 times a day for new comments. If there are no new comments, you check the stats to see who visited. The need to know you’re being heard (or, rather, read) and what people think of your opinions, including your latest trip to the bathroom, becomes an obsession.
  • You read your RSS feeds, post comments and then check back on THOSE comments to see if anyone DARES to disagree with you and if so, join in a flame war. People who blog, and troll blogs, can no longer claim to be bored. We are too busy being heard.  
  • You have Outlook or your preferred email client in the background, and hit F5 or whatever key you use to receive emails, even when it’s on auto-receive. Email anxiety is on your list of neuroses.
  • If you own a mobile device that lets you go online, you will be doing items 5, 6 and 7 in the car, in the can and pretty much everywhere.
  • You wonder if there is a company out there that lets you do all these things for money.
  • If not, you wonder if there’s a company out there that lets you do all these things for free (like those free WiFi hotspots!).