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Hello. Yes, you. You, looking at this screen for hours on end, online. You, bleary-eyed. You, an addict. Have you looked in the mirror lately? Been outside? Know what day of the week it is? Your name was given to us by a spouse or family member who is concerned about your internet addiction. At Internetaholics Anonymous, we can help. We're a non-profit society of recovering addicts like yourself that provides support and counseling through weekly meetings designed to help you cope with your problem. We feature a twelve-step recovery program and in extreme cases, interventions. Although it is our firm belief that you are never "cured", you most certainly can recover. We have designed a brief checklist to determine if you are an addict. Do you: - Have twitches of the hand when you walk by your terminal?
- Check e-mail more than five times a day?
- Spend more time chatting than eating or sleeping?
- Surf aimlessly with no direction, if only to be online?
- Leave your name and information at countless sites if only to hope you'll receive a reply one day from a company you'll never do business with anyway?
- Log on before important personal habits, such as meal preparation, hygiene or bodily functions?
- Have red, swollen eyes that hang halfway out of your head?
- Spend hours online on a holiday from work, where you'd usually be griping about your carpal tunnel syndrome?
- See smoke arising from your computer or WebTV box?
- All of the above?
If you answered yes to four or more questions (or chose #10), you have a problem. Please call us at Internetaholics Anonymous at: 1-800-LOGOFFNOWFORSWEETJESUSSAKES. We're here, we're free, and we're confidential. The first step to recovery is admission that you have a problem. Call us today. If you can power off to free up your phone line, that is.
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