As yet, there is no official psychological or psychiatric diagnosis of an "Internet" or "Computer" addiction. Although researchers are seriously studying this issue as being a problem, they have yet to come up with a set criteria to label it an official 'addiction'.
It must meet two basic criteria. Is there a consistent, reliably diagnosed set of symptoms that constitutes this disorder? Does the diagnosis correlate with anything - are there similar elements in the histories, personalities, and future prognosis of people who are so diagnosed. Below is a formulated list of probable symptoms. If you have experienced 3 to 5 of these symptoms, you may be considered an addict.
Top 10 Signs You're Addicted to the Net
10. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
9. You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator 1.1 or higher."
8. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
7. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
6. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
5. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
4. You laugh at people with 2400-baud modems.
3. You start using smileys in your snail mail.
2. The last mate you picked up was a JPEG.
1. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem.
You succeed.
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callmepc
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May 14 @ 8:33AM
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Funny thing: I used to USE smileys in my letters...but they were little caricatures of me, rather than the standard yellow "two dots and a curve" variety.
That was back when I had time to write real letters...
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krutsup
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May 14 @ 9:06AM
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i did use smileys and peace signs, before the internet was even invented. and since i've been addicted to almost everything else that has passed through my life, i am certainly wary of the symptoms. 
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callmemax
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May 14 @ 2:26PM
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lol  lol,,,,,,,,,, WHO goes to bed before 3am ?
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