You’re an obsessive-compulsive computer user if you…
Thursday, May 31st, 2007This is a list of things that I’m often guilty of. Are you obsessive-compulsive when it comes to computer usage?
Do you do three or more of the following?
1. Clean out your recycle/trash bin as soon as you delete something?
2. Get irritated if there are more than 3-5 emails in your inbox?
3. If you use Ubuntu, are you constantly installing updates as soon as they appear in order to get that little orange icon off the screen, but are too lazy to set it to update automatically?
4. Delete all your Gmail spam, because the high number is bugging you?
5. Are you a Wordpress blogger and get irritated when you make a comment on a non-Wordpress blog?
7. Do you get irritated with people who don’t back up their photos, documents, etc. because you have back ups of all your stuff at least twice?
8. Don’t ya hate it when you minimize your Firefox or IE on a tab that’s not Gmail (or some other web-based email program), then you don’t know how many emails are in your inbox?
9. Do you leave your email logged in all day and look at it in the toolbar at least twice a minute to check if the inbox has any email, then immediately look at it if you do, stopping everything you’re doing?
10. Are you a person who won’t sign up for Twitter because you know you’ll be doing it all day long?
11. Are you are irritated that Yahoo Photos is shutting down, because you’re so used to it, even though it’s probably the lamest online photo service?
12. You’re annoyed when you sign up for paperless statements with a credit card company and they still send snail mail statements.
13. You would never use Google Gears because you’re always online.
14. You’re a person who stares at your last IM with someone, waiting until they come back from being idle or away, so you can pounce on them with a new message as soon as they return.
15. Do you check your Google Reader (or some other feed reader) constantly, just to keep the number of unread feeds lower that 100+?
If you answered in the affirmative to three or more of the above, you need help. Your family probably doesn’t like you, and you’re probably guilty of deleting important documents, because they don’t fit in with your document naming scheme.