You Might Be A Social Media Junkie If…

Nielsen recently released an interesting study on social media usage and social media junkies.

I thought I’d post my own list of items for you to determine if you are a true social media junkie or not. For someone (me) who is always trying to balance the online with the offline, I feel your junkie pain.

You Might Be a Social Media Junkie If…

1. You’ve told your immediate and extended family that the best place for them to find out what you’re up to is on Tweetdeck.

2. Instead of an emergency phone number on your children’s school information – you’ve posted your TwitterID account and told them that is the best way for them to reach you. (The school secretary in particular does not seem hip to the tweeting.)

3. You volunteered for the Parent Teacher Organization group but only on a virtual level and have promised you will send tweets during the school carnival when the principal is dunked.

4. Your Mom closed her Facebook account, because she was getting too many Fan messages about you and her joining your Fan page.

5. Your husband has a Google alert set up on your name and occasionally searches Google images so he can see what you looked like before you became part of your office chair.

6. Your neighborhood bunko group has unfriended you on Facebook because they don’t much cotten to you sending status updates like, “I just kicked everyone’s butt in bunko. I’m the bunko queen and these women can’t roll a triple six if it killed them.”

7. You tell people you and Barack Obama are very close virtually because you joined his Facebook Fan page.

8. You tried to take your iPhone into your last mammogram so you could tweet out in real-time how it really wasn’t all that painful. (And why women should absolutely be allowed the right to get them at 40!)

9. You found your Honors English teacher (Mrs. Whitley) on Facebook and you’re sending her blog posts to redline for you (because after all once a teacher, always a teacher.)

10. Your husband has banned twittering, facebooking, linkedin-ing from the bedroom.

11. Your pug starts a very high pitched noise when he sees you reach for your iPhone.

12. You don’t understand why your family does not want to use their gravatars as the Christmas card picture this year.