10. All your friends live in other countries and know you as "sexybabe229"

9. Your idea of a hot date is when "sexylips" asks you to met them in a chat room at midnight.

8. The scrolling messages of the main screen chat room is your screen saver

7. "Bennyfrost" whom you've never met in your life, knows your whole life story...through the grapvine

6. Your ICQ quit 3 weeks ago, the reason "prolonged internet use: out of our area of sevice"

5. To you the message "enter new search" isn't a suggestion, it's a command

4. When someone in a chat room asks what you do for fun you respond "this IS my fun"

3. Your fiance lives in another state, you've met them once and all you have is a scanned pic of them

2. The nickname given to you by your non-cyber friends is "www.oocities.org/cgi=bin/chat_entry?area=romancechat%2Egeocities%2Ecom"...and they say it with an evil look in their eyes.

1. Your good dreams include a stroll on the beach...with your computer...your nightmares include watching your computer fall from a thirty story building and you're tied up to a railroad track, unable to save it