A Laugh A (Painfully Slow) Minute.I recently saw a book at Barnes & Noble -- one of the brick-and-mortar stores, not the online replica, where I could actually flip through the pages. A little paperback called "You know you're surfing the Net too much when..." provided lots of laughs. Truly funny. Like "...you haven't gotten a phone bill in three months because you're still on the same call" or "...the only time you see the sun is on the solar livecam" or "...you consider 30 minutes of live chat with your kids as quality time." But sometimes in real life, farce or tomfoolery may actually describe the situation better than funny. So I've added a few sentence enders of my own. You know you're addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. to the Internet when you think the speed of getting a question answered depends on the download time of the site. It's just too easy to get impatient with a slow-loading web site. Have you noticed, especially, if someone is hovering at your cubicle waiting for you to provide some missing information, and you say, "Hold on, I can get that online," those 10 seconds waiting for the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. to produce visible light seem like forever? Each of you complains loudly about how slow it is sometimes, because 10 seconds of silence is deadly. Once you get the site up, you scan and link over to another, then try a search engine. After 10 minutes, maybe you've found what you were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. , but the 10 seconds of silence is still more painful. In truth, online information often is not useful or well-presented, and face it, some sites just aren't logical. You know you're addicted to the Internet when you trust it. Remember as a child hearing over and over, "Don't believe everything you see on television." Now that I'm a parent, I'm telling my kids, "Don't believe everything you find on the Internet." Charisma and credibility stuck to soon-to-be U.S. President John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in once Americans saw him on television. A similar trust amazingly seems to attach itself to whatever is delivered via the Internet, much to the dismay of information sources traditionally considered trustworthy. I recently turned to the Internet for information about a rare disease just diagnosed in a relative. Search results led me to sites for medical journals, pharmaceutical companies, and -- shall I say -- more alternative sources of health advice and health care products. Here's what's critical: information fitting the full spectrum of reliability appeared equal. I know, because I printed out dozens of pages of information and spread it all out across the floor to analyze and compare. Which leads to my last contribution: You know you're addicted to the Internet when you believe online information saves resources. You've been sniffing too much toner if you think you're saving paper these days. Optimistically op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op , maybe you're just breaking even in paper consumption today with 10 years ago, and the rest of your information exist electronically. My compliments. But the truth is that if you're storing downloaded files, you're filling disks and drives and servers. The Internet will be a true resource saver when you don't have to save everything out of fear that you won't have access to it via the Internet again or even be able to find it when you need it. Just a few things for Internet communicators to keep in mind when creating online wisdom for us all. Sheri Rosen, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , is director of organizational communication Organizational communication, broadly speaking, is: people working together to achieve individual or collective goals. [1] Discipline History The modern field traces its lineage through business information, business communication, and early mass communication at USAA USAA United Services Automobile Association USAA Urban Superintendents Association of America USAA United States Achievement Academy USAA United States Arbitration Act of 1925 USAA United States Axemen's Association USAA United States Air-Table-Hockey Association , a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. company in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). 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