…you’re at the computer in the living room…your husband is 6 feet away on the couch, with the laptop… you start to say something, but then realize it’s faster just to type it in a quick IM
My wife and I sometimes send each other ICQ messages rather than talk to each other, evn though our computers are in the same room, less than 3 ft. apart.
A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.
When your computer breaks down and you bring tea over to your best friend’s house( who also has a computer) and when you get there she is online and you ask what’s going on…online that is.
Then the two of you open two MIRC windows so that you can both chat…and 3 hours later you go home and still haven’t drank the tea!
I can do you one better.
You know you’re online too much when you’re driving in your car, and you hear something on the radio in a piece of music that sounds just a little like the AIM xylophone notes (doodely-doo) and you get a little adrenelin rush, even though you are nowhere near a computer.