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20 Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life

1. You have never sat through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep, ring, buzz or blip.
2. You met your significant other online.
3. You IM the person who occupies the cubicle next to yours.
4. You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but forget to send your mother a birthday card.
5. When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.
6. You know Bill Gates' e-mail address, but you have to look up your own social security number.
7. You’ve replaced the "answering machine" with "voice mail."
8. You send electronic cards instead of paper ones.
9. You back up your data every day.
10. You clean up your computer more often than you clean up your house.
11. You think jokes about being unable to program a VCR are stupid .
12. On vacation, while everyone else is flipping the pages of John Grisham’s latest  novel you’re reading a computer manual on your handheld device.
13. You go to computer trade shows and map out the path of the exhibit hall in advance. But you cannot give someone directions to your house without looking up the street names.
14. You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.
15. You own a set of itty-bitty screw-drivers and you actually know where they are.
16. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
17. You have ended friendships because of irreconcilably different opinions about which is better – MACs or PCs.
18. You email this message to your friends over the net when you’d never get around to showing it to them in person or reading it to them on the phone. In fact, you have probably never met many of these people face-to-face.
19. You take 30 minutes to convert this text document to HTML using vi
20. You understand all the jokes in this list. If so, then technology has taken over your life. Take time to smell the roses or lie under a tree and write a poem. Oh, and don't use the notepad on your laptop.

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