One of the most addictive, most powerful forces on the internet, these rooms can ruin your life totally. Most of the poor souls there don't even realize that there is a whole cyberworld outside Aol's servers just begging to be explored. If you or someone you love is addicted to this dread disease, please see that professional help is enlisted immediately.

___You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out".

___Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

___If you are male and see a female in the "Real" world that you wish to meet, your first thought is to IM her.

___If you are female and you see a male in the "Real" world that you wish to meet, your first thought is that you wish he'd IM you.

___You have to get a 2nd phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut.

___You walk into a room, and, finding that it has more than 23 people, you inform management that there is an error.

___When looking at signs, you wonder why they are always "yelling" at you.

___You go up to people you are attracted to "in real life" and ask them for their GIF.

___You know what a "snert" is.

___You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to "check your mail" & while there you "just wanted to see who was online".

___You meet people from AOL in public & you have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their screen name.

___You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.

___When seeing someone you wish to meet, your second thought is wishing they'd be on AOL so you don't have to meet them in person.

___You have met over 100 AOLers.

___When meeting a stranger, you ask for their profile. If they have a
profile you ask them for an age/sex/location check.

___When someone online says BRB, gotta go pee, you ask them to go for you, and think they can.

___You think about starting a 12 step recovery group for AOL junkies.

___You are on the phone a minute & need to do something else & say "BRB" or "BBL".

___You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say good-bye to everyone in a room.

___You stop speaking in full sentences.

___You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room & ended up "giving" tech support to other AOLers.

___You sign on & immediately get 10 IMs from people who have you on their buddy list.

___Your buddy list has over 100 people on it.

___You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your first cup of coffee.

___You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake.

___You have your computer set so it goes directly into AOL's welcome screen.

___You wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home from work.

___You get up at 2 am to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead.

___You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo.

___You enter a room & 23 people greet you w/ {{hugs}} or **kisses**.

___You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme.

___Your voice mail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n & I will TTYL".

___You type faster than you think.

___You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too & are now undergoing therapy in private rooms instead of at his office.

___You can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie.

___You dream in "text".

___Being called a Newbie is a "MAJOR" insult.

___You don't want to leave in case you miss something.

___You double click your TV remote.

These were sent to me by a friend of mine.