How do you know when you are addiccted to text messaging/im?

You know you're addicted when you can't go a day or two without using one of them.

A good test would be to try giving up texting and IM for a weekend - if you can do it then yes, you're not addicted. If however you can't go even that long without doing it - I'd say you're addicted.

Addicted to text messaging? I don't think your looking at the big picture. People aren't addicted to smoking. They are addicted to the nicotine they inhale which stimulates the blah..blah.. okay?

Someone isn't addicted to text messaging. They are addicted to the fact that they have quick easy communication with all of their friends are are able to have multiple conversations at once. Being on the phone limits you to one person, but text messaging is like a big chat room.

Your addicted to text messaging when in the case that your phone breaks or is taken away you feel like you are out of the loop and your going to miss something awesome because your friends can't contact you. Sure, everyone might feel like that in a way, but it's the addiction that brings it to a hysterical level.

Hope that gives you something to think about.

well i don't know but my instinct say that if u feel more happy or sad to read a message than listen or if u like to type the feelings rather than speak and if you feel good to be a alone in a crowd and if u unable the judge the expressions or message from eyes than i think u r addicted well its a good sign but not go deep in this addiction because you will loose your social interaction or rules of open talk with a person face to face. so i will suggest that make a balance between them and good wishes for life.

They said that my country is the texting capital of the world.

You know that you are addicted if

1. you keep your mobile phone closeby

2. you keep checking if there is an incoming message

3. except when you are doing mass marketing, you are

sending more than fifty (50) text messages during your

walking hours

My friend leaves her phone on so she can hear them in the middle of the night. Plus, she and I went on vacation from Indiana to Nashville, Tennessee and she text messaged almost all the way there and she was driving!! i had to yell at her twice to pay attention. the first time was when we were closing in on some traffic that was backed up along the highway because of a wreck. And, the second time, we were in downtown Nashville in alot of traffic, and she was still text messaging. She can do it without even looking at the keypad. Are there any contests? I think she would win.

Try putting the phone down or signing off IM for 10 minutes, if you cannot, you are addicted.

Signs would be 4-5+ hours a day texting/im.

you know when your addicted to messaging when you cant go a week without doing it. some tips to do to stop text messaging is to spend time with family and friends and go to new exciting places that you have never had went to before.

good luck!

Honestly okay this:

You open your phone just to look at the backround and wait for the text symbol thing to pop up.

You sign on your IM and just look at whos online.

You can never put your phone down.

You sign on IM at your friends houses.

And I guess theres more, but those are the BIG ones!

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I even have basically considered the IMing communication in those 3 books. they're like a sequence. TTYL, TTFN and L8r, G8r by way of Lauren Myracle. i in my view enjoyed it...it grew to become right into a good theory. and it grew to become into out till now 'the clique' even even with the shown fact that i havent study 'the clique'

I feel you are addicted if you are using time texting, and not spending time w/ your family.. which can't be replaced.. time goes by so quickly.

Or, if it is the last thing you do at night, and the first when u awake...........

Or, if you go over your alloted minutes.. or use it at school.