If you’re a techno-junkie, the first sign you’ll know you are is if you get irritated when you can’t use it. A day without it and you go bonkers. When someone notices your excessive use, you start to hide it. If these sound like alcohol and drug addiction to you, then you’re surely an addict, too – to technology. Excessive use is the key phrase.

An addiction expert, though, has criticized the use of the word ‘addiction.’ He calls it a loose definition. Addiction, according to the expert, has other manifestations such as craving, compulsive use, sheer focus on the addictive object at the expense of other things that have to be attended to as well, and withdrawal symptoms when the addicting object is not available. Now, think back. Yes, you have these additional manifestations, too! Of course, you do! That’s why you are a true blue techno addict. Face it, your life is on Facebook.

A text messaging addict constantly has a cellphone on hand, as if the gadget is glued to her palm from the day she came out of her mother’s womb. A computer gaming addict can play for 12 hours, relentlessly, unmindful of those little negligible things called meals. And if someone’s life revolves around emails and social networking sites, then that’s more than tech-savvy life; that’s an addict. There even was a young man whose iPod earphones were constantly plugged into his ears, day in, day out. It’s a small wonder how he was able to manage crossing the streets without hearing the honking of horns.

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Via Live Science