I am unable to do such deep soul-searching right now.
Take me back to
CHAT.
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�~ C.H.A.T.Z. ~�
(Chatting Human Addiction Testing Zone)
Please choose one answer that comes closest to your experience in Chat.
1. A thunderstorm has made its way into your area and is directly over your house. You respond by:
a) I shut down my computer a half an hour before the storm hits.
b) As soon as I have said good-bye to all my chat friends.
c) Shut down my computer? I might miss something!
d) When I can smell the wires from the electric strip melting to the carpet.
2. The phone rings and it is an old friend. You are having too much fun in the chat room. Do you:
a) Take the call and chat away, happy to hear from them.
b) Take the call, half listening while watching the screen.
c) Pretend the phone line went dead and you can't hear them.
d) You never answer the phone while chatting. No one calls you anymore, anyways because they know you won't pick up.
3. You awake in the morning after an evening in Yahoo! Chat to find:
a) Yourself cozy and comfortable in your bed. (With visions of chatters dancing thru your head...)
b) Dozens of e-mail addresses scattered about, with even more pop up boxes on your puter adding new friends to your messenger.
c) Still at your computer workstation with a bowl of cereal in your lap.
editors note:(LOL)
d) 2 "Post-Its" attached to your PC Screen. One saying, "This is the Final Act". The other saying "It's over, Your spouse has left you", and your PC is the co-respondent.
4. You have your drink and your snacks beside your computer, all ready for an evening of excitement in chat. Your idea of 'cybering' is:
a) An experience you have never tried and have no desire to try.
b) You play along with words, pretending that you are enjoying the experience even though you are bored and reading other e-mail while he/she types.
c) Being as creative and detailed as you can be in your descriptions of what you would do to your 'partner' if they were there in person, then your partner doing the same for you.
d) Cleaning the toilet and bathtub, and occasionally going back to the computer to type one-word lines showing your approval.
5. You are peacefully chatting in your favorite room. Multiple P.M. windows deluge you. Do you:
a) Respond to them all.
b) Respond to only those from the opposite sex.
c) Close chat and run nekkid through your neighborhood screaming.
d) Respond to none of them and continue chatting.
6. You know you have been chatting too long when:
a) You begin ignoring real life events and often LOL to yourself.
b) You haven't watched prime time television in years.
c) You spend hours getting your 'avatar' just right.
d) Your chatting turns tribal and you join groups of chatters, such as, the 'Bimbos', the 'CrashtestDummies' and the 'oldenough2knowbetters'.
7. You are in a chat room and 3 of your latest chat 'interests' come into the chat room at the same time. Do you:
a) Exit chat
b) Go mute, pretend to have a frozen screen, complain of a lag, your ISP is acting 'funny', Yahoo is running poorly.
c) Change names really quick!
d)� Are you kidding! Always prepared, you open up a few more windows. Then after logging on with different screen names, you chat with them ALL!
8. How far will you go for chat?
a) To the garage or the basement, depending on where the family has inconveniently relocated the computer.
b) No more the 100 meters from the phone jack until cell-modem prices 'get real'.
c) The closest cyber-cafe you can find to meet your 'chat' blind date. (In which case close to home and convenience aren't necessarily 'good things'.)
d) 25,000 miles, or the minimum required to bag another frequent flyer free trip to visit another chatter.
9. You realize that the 'chatting' session has gone on too long when:
a) Your ass turns numb and your fingers have lost all circulation.
b) Your spouse walks in foaming at the mouth because you 'chatted' for over 6 hours and you thought it was only one.
c) When there are over 25 people in the room and you know every single one of them. You prefer these friends over the ones in reality.
d) Viewing the history sessions in you browser, you realize you have spent 114.5 hours on-line in the past week, averaging out to 16 hours per day.
10. You know you are feeling especially PARANOID in Yahoo! chat when:
a) You close your eyes to check out profile pics...(In case of nudity)
b) You think the porn ads are flirting with you.
c) You are so afraid you are going to miss saying "hello" to someone you are greeting the ADS.
d) You think you really are the 'chat god' MIDIWRITER.
*winks*
