Signs of Netflix Addiction

Are you suffering from Netfix addiction? Wenisland asks:

Do you check your Netflix Queue more than four times per week?

Does your Netflix Queue have more than 200 movies? Do you plan to watch all 200 movies in the next year?

Do you watch the DVD the same day it arrives so you can send it back the next day?

Have you mailed a DVD back to Netflix from another person's house?

You can read the entire list of symptoms here.

Comments

[-Adam-]

Wow. If these are the signs of "addiction," then I must be borderline OCD. Checked my queue 4 times a week? I check it at least 4 times a DAY! My queue has close to 400 movies. I ALWAYS watch my movies the same day, and when I go out of town, I change my address on Netflix so that my movies will be sent wherever I am headed. I have issues.

[shoobe01]

Yeah... concur. I have over 200 in my secondary queues (like for series). Movie one has close to 600.

So? So what? Ya wanna fight about it?

[hawk5391]

My name is hawk5391, and I am a Netflix addict.

It started off so innocently, you know they make it so easy to sign up. "3-out is enough for me," I told myself, "I'm not going to get hooked like those other people." But soon, it was 4-out, then 6-out. I'm still not sure I have hit rock bottom. I even have a seperate queue for my daughter, and I rate movies for her and everything! I mean, she's only three years old! Netflix, have you no heart?

I visit my queue compulsively several times a day, and I even organize it according to a byzantine system I have developed. I plan what movies I'm going to watch on what days and when I'm going to send them back and how long it's going to take to get there. I can't tell you how many times I have stood forlornly outside the local Post Office at 5 minutes past closing time, just knowing that my PO Box held more of those precious red envelopes, and that I would have to go cold turkey until the next morning at 6:30 am.

As I sank deeper into my addiction, I started seeing things, like secret messages from Netflix to me: "You and Matt really liked this movie way more than the average viewer. You two are certainly far from average!" And then I started seeing actual movies on my screen. Who wouldn't want to Watch Now?

Fortunately, I found hackingnetflix.com, and its support group of Netflix Addicts. Soon, I hope to be on the road to recovery.

[Hunter McDaniel]

I guess I'll be the next speaker at Netflix Anonymous. Maybe we can make a movie and call it "Days of Discs and Roses".

I check my queue prior to any day that I expect a movie to be returned and rearrange the top 5 slots to have it ready for the next return.

I "only" plan to watch about 150 discs this year and I usually keep my queue under 75 or s. Call it just-in-time queueing.

[type-cast]

How can you have 600, shoobe? Did they raise the queue limit from 500 to 1000?

I keep my queue around 50 or 60, at most. If you have 500 movies, it would take you 3 yrs to see them on a 3-out plan, if you returned as fast as possible. What's the point? Where are the standards? I'm more picky. It's hard to find anything that stands out from all of the dreck. Most movies are filler, made from hunger. There aren't many great movies.

[Barrett]

I have about 150 movies in my queue, but most aren't real high priority to see. I've mellowed out and only use the 1-out at a time plan. I still regularly check my Queue and Friends page to see how they're doing.

[eazyguy52]

I'm a recent addict, but the ways of the Netforce are strong with me Obi-wan.

Four times a week? More than that. I'm always adding movies thinking what a good movie certain ones will be. A few weeks later I'll forget why I thought that and delete it from my queue. The addicition really becomes strong on the evening when I mail my movies back. Are those really the next movies I want to see next, or should I move something deeper in my queue up to the top?

And how deep is my queue? About 365 discs, but some of those are TV series. I guess about 300 of them are what typecast would call "dreck". What can I say except that I'm a big fan of dreck.

But I do all my movie watching on the weekend, so I will usually ship all of them back on the same day, Tuesday or Wendnesday.
I haven't mailed a disc back from someone's house yet, but I did take my discs to the "post office in the big city" which is thirty miles away once. I did it in the early stages of my addiction, just to be sure they would get them.

[Becky]

I could quit any time. Really. Honest.

[Bogarts_Falcon]

"My name is hawk5391, and I am a Netflix addict."

Hello hawk. Glad to see you here. We'll help you kick the habit.

[corey3rd]

Wow. These aren't the signs of an addict. These are the signs of a tenderfoot.

I check my Netflix Queue four times a day in order to see if they've processed and lined up my next titles.

My Queue is just under 200 - I'll add in strange things after hearing abou them from odd websites. There's a lot of long waiters on the list.

I'll watch the DVD when it arrives in the morning mail and toss it back into the mail for evening pick up.

I know every mailbox between here and the post office. I also know when they're scheduled for last pick up (6 p.m. at the post office).

You are truly an addict when your mailman is late and you're not angry, but concerned that something has happened to your pal.

[slobone]

type-cast, the point of having 500 movies in your queue is so that you won't forget interesting titles you happen to run across. Quite likely I'll never get around to most of them, but you never know. I would say at a minimum you're an addict if you have as many profiles as you're allowed on your plan, even though you live alone. Or if you spend more time massaging your queue than you do watching movies.

[eviltimes]

Only amateurs let their queue get out of hand like that. I'm ashamed of you! At the first sign of throttling or possible lack of purty red envelopes, crank that plan up to EIGHT and keep it there until symptoms are relieved. Only then can you know the pure joy of Netflix fulfillment...

Great post, LMFAO!

[eviltimes]

Only amateurs let their queue get out of hand like that. I'm ashamed of you! At the first sign of throttling or possible lack of purty red envelopes, crank that plan up to EIGHT and keep it there until symptoms are relieved. Only then can you know the pure joy of Netflix fulfillment...

Great post, LMFAO!

[gir]

I wonder what this guy has against Dragonball Z and Inuyasha. Getting them thru NetFlix should be the only way you watch them, not a sign of addiction at all.

Indeed, if you're willing to sit through the six commercial breaks per episode to watch them on TV (per torture), that'd be a sign of serious addiction to DBZ/Inuyasha.

[Sue]

My netflix queue is continuously maxed; I don't think that makes me undisciplined. I suppose it helps that I didn't really see more than a movie or two a year until I was about 16 (I'm 21) so I've got a lifetime of good (and bad) movies to catch up on.

At my current pace, including watching instantly, I'll have watched all of my original 500 within the first 2 years. Breaking down the math on that one makes me a little sad. Especially considering I have a 30 hour a week job in addition to college classes and am spending that amount of free time glued to a tube. Yikes. Pray for me.