Few Telltale signs of IF addiction.
1. When you have a separate Face Book account for IF friends, and you check that account more often than your actual Facebook account .
2. When your Best Friends are people whom you have never met. And you don't know their last name.
3. When you know more about your IF Buddy's schedule than your sibling's schedule.
4. When Friday Nights and weekends are no longer movie nights, game nights but rather uninhibited Chat nights.
5. When if you get up at 3.00 a.m. for a drink ,the first thing you do is check your IF inbox, scraps and posts.
6. When after a tiring day at work, school you get rest by blogging on IF for hours.
7. When you get worried that some catastrophe must have occurred because your friend did not log in the IF account for a day. You have thoughts like "Is she Alive" , "should I call the cops".
8. When you come here and discuss a show every night , though you stopped watching the show a month ago.
9. When you disassociate from your offline social life , you feel that its more enjoyable place to spend time than the real world.
10. When you get less than 5 hrs. of sleep, because you happily lose sleep over IF.
11. When you ignore work, family, school for sneaking into IF.
12. When you keep visiting the post that you commented on , in order to see whether the TM commented on your comment.
13. When you get upset , if your friend does not like your post , but likes the comment that does not agree with your POV.
14. When you are happy to see your friend's name in the likes section... a friend who is very hard to please and you respect and value her opinion.
15. When some of the best heartfelt conversations you ever had were via pms.
16. When you start caring for, loving and liking people whom you never met. When they become a very important part of your life.
Is it time for us to see a therapist ?
Edited by gossipgirlxoxo - 12 years ago