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can you live without internet/how long?

ricecook

ricecook

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Oct 11, 2007
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how long can you go without logging on to the web?

can you live without it?

i cant live without it..longest for me that i can stay off is like a week then i crave my:apple:
 
Wow, thats a hard question. Last week my connection went down for 2 hours, and I was starting to get a little fidgety (sp). But I guess when it really comes down to it, I could make it a week... I would just go bowling.

:apple:
 
not long

i go crazy if my internet goes down. I would rather not have it all then have to deal with not being there one second and back the next.
 
Totally addicted to teh internets and computers here.... One time I forgot to pay my electric bill, got shut off, meaning no computer... spent the night at my mom's because she has food and electricity - oh, and the great conversation.
 
I have been on vacation in Europe where I really couldn't log onto the internet for about 2 weeks. It was hard and really weird, but I survived. It would be hard for me to go a week without the intranets.
 
christopher3071 said:
Why on Earth? Were you abducted by the martians?
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got an internship in oklahoma working on oil rigs

Cassie said:
I honestly believe I could go the rest of my life without internet. It's not really that important to me, it's just entertainment.
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until you have to

1) pay bills online/ manage bank accounts when there is no branch by you
2) when you HAVE to use email to communicate with some people
 
dukebound85 said:
got an internship in oklahoma working on oil rigs
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They don't have internet in Oklahoma? I know that area of the country is about 10 years behind everyone else in technology, but damn! No overpriced AOL dial up on Windows 95 available for you? :D

And no, I probably couldn't live without internet. I'm going on a cruise in May and I'll know I'll be finding myself using the overpriced wireless at least once just to check in on things (the laptop's coming along to unload digital camera memory cards each night). Either that, or when we stop in Puerto Rico and the USVI, I'll be tethered with my phone since it's free roaming down there.

I will say in my defense though, that even though I use it all the time and would go nuts without it, I'm not addicted. I'm able to get off the web for awhile to do more important things, I'm not like some people who just can't get away.
 
yg17 said:
They don't have internet in Oklahoma? I know that area of the country is about 10 years behind everyone else in technology, but damn! No overpriced AOL dial up on Windows 95 available for you? :D

And no, I probably couldn't live without internet. I'm going on a cruise in May and I'll know I'll be finding myself using the overpriced wireless at least once just to check in on things (the laptop's coming along to unload digital camera memory cards each night). Either that, or when we stop in Puerto Rico and the USVI, I'll be tethered with my phone since it's free roaming down there.

I will say in my defense though, that even though I use it all the time and would go nuts without it, I'm not addicted. I'm able to get off the web for awhile to do more important things, I'm not like some people who just can't get away.
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haha they have it. just that the place they put me in didnt have it without me signing a 10 month or so contract when i was just there for 3 months

plus the fact that id be on jobs for over a week at a time (sleeping in trucks and such on location) and get 1 day off every 14 days meant not so much free time to really miss the good ol' internet.

of course macrumors is an exception!
 
I could go without internet for the rest of my life, if other people also don't have internet or if i really need to, otherwise, one week without computer, tv is great!! but after that week, i would probably want to go back.. :p
 
cycocelica said:
I have been on vacation in Europe where I really couldn't log onto the internet for about 2 weeks. It was hard and really weird, but I survived. It would be hard for me to go a week without the intranets.
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Heh. V similar experience as yours. But I was in Greece for 3 weeks a couple summers ago and internet access just isn't as "big" there as say, London. It was a definite "lifestyle" change going from spending *cough*hoursaday*cough* to barely ten minutes on teh tubez™ two times in three weeks. :D But given the chance, I'd do it all over again.

Who'd wanna be cooped up on a 'puter when it's so damned gorgeous?! *swoon*
 
Depends what else is going on.

If I'm on holiday somewhere so have things to do with my days/evenings, then a lack of internet isn't particularly important. Yes, I like to have it to mail photos to people back home etc but a few weeks without it doesn't hurt.

But at home where it's a part of my usual life - bill paying, news-reading, shopping - then it's a lot harder. I was recently reduced to having my sole home access as being my iPod Touch - now that was tough but better than having nothing at all! :p
 
By nature of working with computers, the internet is constantly at my fingertips. However, I've gone weeks without access to it (or a computer), and am quite capable of going without. In a perfect world, I'd probably spend every day on a rock face and not bother with it at all.
 
Over the past few years, i have learnt to never go without a web connection, ANYWHERE...

i simply must be connected otherwise i will not function correctly.. :eek:
 
I could stop right now! I don't need any help, it doesn't control me! If just the internet i could stop completely but if computer too, 2 weeks before i'd go crazy
 
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