12 Signs That You're Addicted to Social Media.

1.You can’t get beyond the main course in a restaurant before you get out your phone and facebook, twitter or instagram the is the next thing. In fact, you are itching to snap away by the time the first course arrives.

2. The very first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone (always by the side of your bed, in fact -- usually under your pillow) and check how many times your witty comment from the night before has been reposted, retweeted or liked.

3. Your children catch you trying to post Facebook updates while reading their bedtime stories.

4. You greet friends at a party by their Twitter handle. “Hey, @sandra100, how are you?” and the next thing is “ I saw you online yesterday”

5. You can not visit the lavatory without using the 23 available seconds to investigate how many people have liked or commented on your photo.

6.Lizzy your friend, on a Monday morning, asks how was your weekend. And your first reaction is “What? did you not see all the amazeball photos I posted on Instagram? How can you not know that I had a  great nite? ” You say: “Er, it was nice. Thanks.” And then think, I must unfollow Lizzy, the ungrateful idiot.

7. You “like” your own updates on Facebook. You “favourite” your own Tweets. You “like” your own instagram pics. You “pin” selfies on Pinterest. Stop it. Now.

8. You “log in” in the metro, BRT, Staff bus or taxi on the way to work. You “log in” when you go out to get your lunchtime, Posted “what a lunch”, you “log in” at the pub after work. You want to “log in” when you get home, but you suddenly realise that though you have remembered your phone (of course), you have forgotten your keys.

9. The first thing you do on hearing that someone famous has died is to google their career and urgently, in a panicky rush, find the obscurest fact you can find about them so that you can post an update. You always want to be the first to post!

10. Someone tells you a joke, and instead of laughing out loud, you use the phrase “lol”. As in, you actually open your mouth and instead of uttering the purest, most instinctive proof of humanity, you say “lol.” And then you laugh at your own cleverness.

11. You use the phrase “hashtag” in normal conversations. #fail. Or rather “Hashtag fail”, then you are in for it. Check it!

12. Watching StarGist on TV, you overheard the presenter talking about a celeb, your anxiety levels rise to almost unbearable levels as you desperately try to be the first person on your timeline to post or tweet “D'banj is now a father to a baby girl" That what's called "Amebo" Gossiper!