You know you’re addicted to social media when …

1. Instead of yelling to call the family to the dinner table, you text them or type to them on MSN.
2. When you open Twitter, you scroll through 10 or 20 pages to see if you missed anything!
3. You tell your Facebook friends any big news before you tell your parents or spouse.
4. You need your followers’ approval abouty our lunch choice.
5. You block out the unpleasantness of public toilets by reading tweets and checking emails on your smartphone in the cubicle.
6. Answering the phone seems too time consuming and you wait for the DM instead.
7. For you it’s totally appropriate to ‘poke’ someone you hardly know.
8. You use “lol” and emoticons even in business emails.
9. You write the @ symbol before your niece’s name on her birthday card.
10. You say “epic fail” or “fail whale” when criticising something or someone.
11. You use with words starting with TW such as tweeple, twizness and tweetup.
12. You tweet comments of your favourite TV shows in real time … and your tweeps do too!
13. You recoil in horror when someone you meet says they don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account.
14. When you’re asked if you like something, you wonder if they mean ‘Like’ it.
15. Writing on the wall has nothing to do with graffiti.
16. You grow crops and raise cattle even though you live in an apartment.
17. You think it’s cool to be a mafia moll yet you’ve never held a gun.
18. You design your career so that you can earn a living using social media.
19. You wish you could put all your in-laws on ‘ignore’.
20. You tweet one or more of these dot points after reading them.

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