If you're obsessed with making and viewing online videos, there's help available. Answer these 10 questions, and speak with your doctor if you answer "yes" to 5 or more of the following:
10. I regret any funny moment that passes which I failed to capture on video.
9. My significant-other or spouse sees my online video sites as "another man or woman."
8. I check my views (and income) more than 7 times a day, starting with first thing in the morning.
7. My life is a series of 20-50 second bits.
6. I cannot fathom the commitment of watching a 30-minute television show.
5. My visits to Revver, YouTube and Google Video are surpassing my time spent on Google or e-mail.
4. I have an uncanny ability to know who (among friends or co-workers) will agree to be in a video.
3. I have developed a parasocial relationship with the "celebrities of online videos" like the Numa Numa kid or BowieChick.
2. I can't stand the period between when I upload a video and when it's viewable.
1. The subject of my online videos has come up in my day-job performance review and career pathing dicsussions.
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Omigosh! I’m way over 5!!!
Doc…Doc…tell me how long I have to live…
Oh…it’s just an addiction and I won’t die from it.
If I haven’t really told my wife about Revver does that qualify as cheating? I tried to tell her once but the link didn’t work at her work PC.
So funny. I especially love #4. That’s why kids are such perfect agreeable “victims”.
10, 8, 4 and probably heading towards 1
That ability to know who is camera friendly is a bit uncanny.
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on a side note, i sent a request to Booyah Networks for more information. i’ll let you know what I get back. they came up in a CNN newsletter I get by Bambi Francisco