Are you a Facebook addict?

You are an FB addict if ___________

• You click ‘like’ or post comments on your friend’s status within seconds of their posting it.

• You updated your status every other minute, and if you ever wrote:
• “Can't get up from the loo....having a bad bad bad loose motion”
• “Being chased by a rabid dog”
• “On M G Road, Junction 2… where can I find a Sulabh Sauchalay?”
• “Anyone travelling to Mumbai tomorrow?”

• You use FB apps:
• To find out who is your best friend.
• To find out who will kill you.
• To make fake report cards just to get ‘A+’ grade based on your friends comments.
• To find out if your partner is cheating on you.
• To invite friends for a party at your place.
• To find out if you are intelligent or not.

• You post pictures of food that your spouse has cooked.

• You type in the grocery list as your status so that you can check it at the store.

• The first thing that you do after switching off the alarm in the morning is check FB.

• You wish your colleague at work through FB on special occasions.

• You don’t laugh at your friend’s jokes, but respond back saying - ROFL, LMAO, LFMAO.

• You exhibit withdrawal symptoms if you don’t have mobile signal for few hours.

• You do FB Mobile while in an important meeting.

• You are someone who thinks for hours for that status message that might attract at least 20 comments and likes.

• Your parents reprimand you by writing on your FB wall.

• You are someone whose spouse screams at you "c'mon now lets have dinner together... you can do your FB thing later..... what is this? all the time FB FB FB"

... and when you log off and reach the dining table your kid goes "what is this Dad?.... Why are you not listening to Mom... eh? You should not do your office work at home... okay?"

... and if the only thing the you feel like doing at that time is, to respond back by giving a " :-) "

• You realize that your 'EX' has stopped all FB activity and abandoned it because notifications of your activities are all over his/her screen!!

• You overhear colleagues gossiping about you "isko office mein koee kaam nahin hai.... poora din FB mein laga rehta hain"

• The only thing u do after logging into your mail is to delete all the FB alert messages3

• You click pictures solely for the purpose of posting it on FB

• If you log into your personal email and find 300 new emails and say "f*** you"... whereas, at the same time, you see a red box on the top left corner of your FB screen with number ‘1’ in it and you instantly have a twinkle in the eye and a smile on your face!!

• If you go scrounging the internet searching for that free software to type in your local language so that your foreigner bosses can not decipher your FB message....

• You sit late in the office and your spouse doesn't believe your explanation that you indeed have lots of work to finish!!

• You are at office, busy writing silly comments on your friend’s status. You forget that it is your kid’s vaccination day today and your wife has to remind you through FB chat like this:

17:16 Wife: Vaccination today

17:17 You: Get ready, I am coming

17:17 Wife: We are ready. You were to reach an hour back

17:17 You: Starting now

17:17 Wife: When?

17:18 You: Now

17:18 Wife: Close your FB AND get out of office NOW!

• If you send love messages to your spouse using FB.

• You start liking your own status/links.

• You read wiki, so that you can post intelligent comments on your friend’s statuses.

• You post live scores of a cricket match that everyone’s watching.

• You comment more on your status than your friends do

• You like the comments you posted on your status

• You go back to your friend's 2 day old status and write comments.

• You are a farmer ..... on FB

• You write comments on your spouse's friend's status more than your spouse does!

• You and your friends type 185 silly comments in just three hours on an absolutely useless status message!!

• You are clueless, and scribble in an utterly out-of-context comment on your friend's status just because you want to. 

• You start hitting comments at the rate of 1 per minute and think "It could've been better"

• Your friend comes in and asks "coming for coffee?" and you reply back "oh no. thanks I am recharging myself with FB"

• When its time to respond to emails, and you'd rather update FB forgetting that your boss too is on your FB Friend’s list.

• You are at office doing FB and it is 16:30hrs and you think "only half hour left, why does the day have to end so fast!!"

• You have nothing else to do and you go back to your old statuses just to have a good read of the comments.

• You can make a blog solely out of the comments your FB friends have written on your wall.

All credits go to my FB friends Harish Kumar, Vidya Rajaram, Arvind Narayanan, Riji Jacob and Nandini Agrawal, who posted these comments on my 22 June 2010 FB status “You know this person is an FB addict, when ____________________________”