10 Signs That You May Be Suffering from TMT (Too Much Technology) Syndrome

You may have a problem with technology if…

1. You feel the urge to tap or click on real objects that aren’t clickable, like a sign in a store. Not everything is clickable, folks. Sometimes it’s just for reading.
2. Writing with a pen and paper for more than 5 minutes feels like a marathon — your palm seizes up and you feel a shooting pain in your thumb muscle. You walk around with claw hand for the rest of the day.
   …This is assuming you can find a pen and paper near you without having to ask someone.
   …If/when you do find the supplies, you realize you’ve forgotten how to write and it’s completely illegible anyway.
3. You don’t have a clock in your bedroom. Instead, you use your iPhone for your alarm and playing white noise to drown out your loud neighbors. (Actually you don’t have a clock anywhere in your house, except that one on the microwave.)
4. Ordering your toilet paper in bulk from Amazon feels like a better deal even though it’d be the exact same price if you just went down the street to Walgreens to buy it. (But having it dropped at your doorstep is way funner.)
5. You find yourself imagining, even if for a split second, that you can rewind a conversation that you had with your friend yesterday because you tuned out halfway through his story about the best pho he’s ever eaten. No, you can’t replay, rewind, or pause real life (not even if your stomach tells you otherwise). You’ve been binge watching way too much Netflix.
6. You’re convinced that any of your daily ills could be solved by an app (e.g. “the bus is late, there must be an app for that”). When you search for that app, 9 times out of 10 you’ll quickly find that it already exists. You’ll be elated (that your problem is solved) but disappointed (that your new startup idea just died). Not to worry! You’ll create a new problem for yourself later that day and the whole cycle will repeat. Warning: this can become an indefinite loop.
7. You try to scroll through pages in a paper book.
8. You haven’t bought stamps in the past year.
9. You don’t have a checkbook. And you forgot how to spell out “forty” (or is it “fourty”?)
10. You had to give up on writing this list by hand after #3 because it was taking too damn long (and you’ll never be able to read any of it anyway).
11. And for bonus points:
    You’ve tripped and fallen down horribly while texting and walking. (Please tell me someone got it on video!)

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