You know you're a Gatherholic when.
1) The phrase, "You've caught us. We're in the process of updating our site" gives you the same pit-of-the-stomach sensation as being locked out of the house naked.
2) Other users get emails from you timestamped 3:12 a.m.
3) Your work computer is covered with postits saying "GATHER FROM HOME ONLY!"
4) You have two home computers so your partner has something to do while you Gather.
5) You have an Excel spreadsheet where you index who commented on which of your articles, who is in each of your groups, who is in your network, etc. (okay this may just be me).
6) You used to be an alcoholic, but you've cut back on those activities because it interferes with your ability to Gather.
7) You've modified your Blackberry so you have real time notifications of your network activity 24/7.
8) Your cabin has no electricity, but you ride your bike back home only at night to sleep. All day you're at the library computer.
9) You really can't be sure what your friends look like. They're all a bunch of icons.
10) A comment on your post says, "Empty the dishwasher." And you get a Gather message saying "What do you think about what I just said."
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Hannah, Faith, I love #11!
13) I knew it was too good to be true, but there was a little part of me that was hoping I'd been anointed (or something else undeserved).
Leah, if I didn't live in the software I probably wouldn't get it. I have a cellphone. It's somewhere around here. I know how to answer it, make calls and charge it. That's all.
Serina, don't worry too much about posts that don't get any attention. It's a crap shoot. Wait a few months and post it again. What doesn't get a single comment one time will be bristling with tens the next. There's no figuring it out. I think sometimes everyone's just busy with a particular post or set of popular posts, and there's no predicting when that may happen.
14) You have a nagging sense that there are people in your network you haven't communicated with recently (AND you have over 100 connections). This is me, and a classic symptom of gatherholism.
Seriously, one thing the spreadsheet allows me to do is send personal emails to someone if I see they've commented on certain types of my posts before and might then be interested in another post of the same.
Larry, thank you. Of course, that comment count includes my own, but that's the case with almost all posts on Gather. I estimate there are 300 Gatherholics, but that's just a gut feel (only Gather knows for sure).
12) When you get up in the morning and instead of coffee you Gather...?