You don't have to sell operating systems or advertise wireless spy cameras to exasperate people. Technology gives all of us the power to reach out to friends, family, coworkers, and people we've never even met and bug the bejesus out of them. Take this quiz to see where you stand on the annoyance scale.
You may be annoying if:
Your instant messages average three emoticons, at least one of which is animated and makes cute remarks.
Your personal Web page includes any of the following:
- More than 12 photographs of your family pet
- More than 10 photographs of you
- Any picture of you naked
When your best friend's PC crashes and destroys 3 hours of work, you say, "Of course, that wouldn't happen if you were on a Mac."
Your PC announces the arrival of an e-mail message by playing a clip from
Joanie Loves Chachi.
You forward long e-mail threads with no explanation of why you're sending the message or what the recipient should do with it.
Your cell phone's ring tone is the entire
1812 Overture. (One bonus point if you love it so much that you wait until it's over to answer your call.)
You agree with the statement: "Riding the bus gives me a perfect opportunity to call my doctor and describe that wart I'm worried about."
You send your coworkers files saved in WordPerfect's native format. Sooner or later, they'll realize it's superior to Microsoft Word!
Your voice-mail greeting at work describes your exact hour-by-hour whereabouts over a two-day span. (Two bonus points if you haven't changed the greeting since November 2003.)
You wear more than three electronic devices in holsters on your belt.
IYHO, it's gr8 2 uz creative spellings in msgs & LOL 2 ;-)!
You figure that if you hold your BlackBerry in your lap below the table, your coworkers won't notice you're checking e-mail while they're talking.
You end all of your e-mail messages with a quotation from an obscure nineteenth-century German philosopher. (One bonus point if the quote is
in German.)
You attached so many pictures to your last e-mail message that it brought down mail servers all along the eastern seaboard.
Your six-year-old belts out "You Light Up My Life" on your voice-mail greeting.
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