Tech Junkie

I was reading the paper the other day and found this article on being a chronic tech junkie.......

• Email. If you check your email three times an hour, you are officially lonely. If you check it out six times an hour, you're officially a cyber addict. After a point, the obsessive-compulsive behaviour can even make you a bit depressed because you end up looking at a blank inbox half the time.
• Not only friends are networked to you. Various social network sites have made you Mr or Mrs popular. A sure sign of a cyber addict or a tech junkie is someone who has 200 plus friends on their Facebook account.
• Your language itself is changing. Lol is lots of laugher, brb is be right back. It might mean you are keeping up with the times, but in reality it could be making you more emotionally disconnected than ever.
• You don't meet people unless they are strangers. Another sure sign of cyber addiction is when you start feeling less and less inhibited meeting strangers through these networks and find even less time for you real friends.
• Inter-passivity. Are you voraciously downloading more games, songs, video clips, etc., than you will ever consume in one lifetime, leave alone a year? With the internet comes a wide range of options, but if all you're doing is downloading without even having the time to enjoy it, then you're engaging in inter-passivity.
• Re-assurance. A lot of cyber-obsessive behaviour could be about wanting emotional re-assurance say experts. We like to feel loved, wanted, cherished.Those myriad virtual gifts and virtual cards, and the free cocktails, and what have you have been created to make you feel special.