IRCaddiction

You have a verbal conversation with a friend and see it printed on the screen in your head.

When speaking to a friend you start you sentence with /me... and finish the sentence in third person.

When you're falling asleep and you see strange nicks pop in on your screen and you realize you're no-where near your computer.

When you carry on a conversation in your head and you can see it scroll.

When you visualize things you do as action commands in color.

When you get angry with someone and you think /kick...

When remembering you need to call someone and your mind pictures dcc chatting.

When you telephone your friends and call them by their nick.

When you prefer to dcc send instead of ftp'ing a file..

When you find yourself at an IRC get-together and leave early to get on IRC.....

When you describe facial expressions verbally ie: , *grin*

When you find yourself *winking* far more than you used to.

When you find yourself *grinning* far more than you used to...

When you realize some of your best friends are people you've never met in person.

When you leave your computer on the IRC channel in order not to miss anything while you're asleep.

When you turn the monitor towards the living room to see if anybody pops in while your occupied with other things and if they do, you trip over everything to get back to the computer before they leave.

You want to type /whois when you see a stranger.

You wish your caller ID had a /whois command....

You hang up a phone call because you're too busy chatting.

When you don't have access to your computer.. you call up a friend who does in order to keep up with the chat.....

When the @ sign gives you a sense of power....

When "NetSplits" become a constant worry.

When you know the difference between a provider and a server.

When you know IRC Cops by name...

When colored messages give you a sense of satifaction.

When you find yourself giving technical instructions in an area you really don't know too well and you feel powerful, because you're right anyway...

When you think/say LOL/ROFL instead of actually laughing.

When you call somebody up to tell them to get on IRC while you are.

When IRC appointments take priority over real-life appointments.

When the first thing you do when you get in the door is log in.

When you ignore incoming E-Mail to stay on IRC

When you get irritated when the phone rings interrupting IRC.. even if you have a separate computer line.

You curse at your provider when you can't access "The Net"

You can feel a dcc sent "Massage"... or taste a dcc sent "cake"

When you ask for GIF's, PIC's or JPG's instead of pictures.

When you learn to converse in 12 windows simultaneously.

When "query" windows are exciting.

When you find yourself actually saying HUG or similiar, on the phone or elsewhere.[1]

When you feel in control by determining the TOPIC....

When you are on thephone and still IRC-ing to the person you are on the phone with...

When you find yourself capable of carrying on a phone conversation and two or three IRC conversations simultaneously.

When you have to watch what you say, depending which window you are in

When you talk about fingering someone and it doesn't mean something obscene

When you get excited in a fairly new channel when you finally get ops

When not getting your op status you start yelling obscenities at the screen

When you feel excited about being op'd and have no idea what it even means

When you try out your ops and accidentally mess up the whole channel

When you get proficient in other IRC software platforms that you have personally never seen.

When ping replies are of the utmost importance and being pinged is considered a compliment

When a lag of more than 5 seconds irritates you and makes you consider going to all the trouble of changing servers and re-entering.

When conversations are disjointed, but you can still follow them.

When you start apologizing for typos all the time (or worse yet, when you don't apologize anymore)

When two or three conversations are going at once and you area part of all of them.

When you correct a typo by adding a letter on the next line (along with a "sorry")

When you swear about forgotten right parenthesis and add them on the next line

When you say hello to someone on the channel before they enter because your notify said they were online.... making others say "where's ____?"

When PIGBOY69 or RUGHEAD show up and you madly scramble for the /kick command

When you learn to decipher dyslexic typing with incredible ease.

When you get your friends addicted as well

When you get totally frustrated with your friends for not getting as addicted as you are

I did not write this, I nicked it off an e-mail... who originally wrote it, I haven't the slightest clue about. I've only edited it somewhat. :)
[1] Part from this one, which I'd like to dedicate to DiscoTex...

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