Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
This sounds serious.
Tell me…
Exactly how often do you check the board to see if someone responded to your thread?
a) Daily?
b) Every 3-4 hours or so?
c) Hourly?
d) Do you hammer on “Refresh” constantly?
If “D” , you may want to seek some help.
Take care.
Definitely option “D” for me… 
Come on people, I’m BORED!!! Post something, anything…
Oh wow!! This is so funny to be put in here just ahead of my son telling me that I really ought not to be doing this ‘so much’!!
I check daily, and I DO hit refresh, but only when needed!!! Now, I’ll go take some aspirin and wash my car, so SEE, I’m doing something healthy!
“Honestly now, Chaplain, you wouldn’t want your sister to marry an enlisted man, would you?”
“My sister IS an enlisted man, sir” the chaplain replied.
I used to check the boards constantly, but I’ve definately slowed way down- same for chat. I’ve been trying to spend more time with real life humans instead of computer people, (much as I love you guys). I just think it’s healthier 
Zette
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
I knew I was addicted when my husband asked me if I was “on that damn message board” again.
He started calling himself a ‘Straight Dope Widower’ when I discovered the SD chat.
Oh well
Rose
I told you not to be stupid, you moron.
Ooooh, one of the first signs. You didn’t “just say no”, did you?
Slightly more seriously, I’m w/ Zette here. The outage (i.e. cretins torching the library of Alexandria) was a useful wakeup call. We share slices of our personalities and lives here. Maybe some of those aspects we’re reluctant to share IRL, so this place can be liberating. Doesn’t make the connections less true or valuable–but they can be more attractive because they’re less demanding.
BUT it’s a balancing act, and each one has to decide individually. The friendships here are no less real for being “cyber-distant”. Yeah, this place and the people here are addicting. Frankly, there’s a more concentrated, variable pool of interesting people than comes my way IR(?)L.
But f2f mundanity has its role too. Learning here is FUN and much to my taste, but the frustrating, boring and demanding “real” life sphere teaches me the stuff I wouldn’t seek out in 5 lifetimes. Cheeses me off royally, but that’s probably what I need the most.
Oh dang, heck, ptui and curses-foiled-again, I just complicated things.
Wouldja believe it’s genetic? An industrial accident? loverock made me do it!
Veb
When someone tells you to get a life and you reply, “This IS my life.”
When you think of it as your job. That OTHER thing you do, for money, you could live without.
When all else fails, ask Cecil.
That’ll teach me to go shopping with Ange!
I am not ‘addicted’, I just enjoy my time on-line. I live with two small children - hardly riveting conversation there.
Before I had access at home, I used to watch TV and talk on the phone all night…I dont see any real difference, except my typing is improving.
And besides, if it wasnt for #straightdope… I would never get to talk to Angie.
theres an option to refresh? whats that?
::Tears open flesh to reveal machinery::
MY GOD! We really are computer people!
Where’s my side of FUN!?
Kisses!
Ophy