1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful
feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers
to reach your family of three.
4. Your idea of being organized is
multiple-colored Post-it notes.
5. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's
time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom,
"What's for dinner?"
6. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
7. You get up in morning and go online before
getting your coffee.
8. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food
bags out of the back seat of your car.
9. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
10. You chat several times a day with a stranger from
South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your
next door neighbor yet this year.
11. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of
your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
12. Every commercial on television has a web-site address
at the bottom of the screen.
13. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone
to see if anyone is home.
14. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you
didn't have the first or 30 years of your life, is cause
for panic and turning around to go get it.
15. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of
date and now sells for half the price you paid.
16. Your reason for not staying in touch with family
is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
17. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make
a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail
instead of in person.
19. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and
check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
20. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
21. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
22. You're reading this.
And then again, you're probably going to forward this also.
