Can you live without the internet?

MIN2511

Hah, my wireless(home) has been acting up all week. I have resorted to internet cafe's or check my emails at work(i hate that) and i have to say i feel crippled. I can't check dublin bus, google news, cinema times, use vodafone online, facebook, bebo e.t.c and i hate it. I can't imagine life without the internet....

Doctor DooM

I'd actually not be able to do My job without out it, so probably literlly, I would not survive without it.

Jeapy

No, i am crippled without it

My sis only has internet access monday-friday and usually rings me every sat and sunday to check her bebo page! I can go without it no prob, just love passing time on it!

MizzLolly

No... It'd kill me :eek:

Ruu_Old

Doubt it, I use it to pay all my bills (mortgage, credit card, power, phone, etc) as I stopped them sending paper ones. It is far more convenient than taking a trip to the bank with their crazy opening hours. *shakes fist* I need it for work as well.
Aside from that I could quit anytime I want though. >_>

Latchy

No , but it's more enjoyable when you have being away from it for about 12/24 hrs.Would not enjoy a continious life in front of the pc .

Dudess

Definitely couldn't live without it. Too reliant on it altogether.

Pythia

I don't have it at work, wouldn't have much time for it anyway.

Enjoy being on it at home though.

Miss Fluff

Hate being without it for any length of time. A couple of weeks ago was without it for a weekend and had genuine withdrawls. As above poster said though, good to be away from it for a 12-24 hour period and then go on it, not that that happens much tbh:rolleyes:

phantom_lord

since i make all my money off it I'd defo wouldn't be. but even w/o that I usually go online every day. I'm addicted

Run_to_da_hills

Its like the Mobile Phone we have become so accustomed to it that one wonders how you could have lived without them. Everything in society is now centered around the Internet, from social welfare, Job searching, purchasing a car, travelingon a plane, booking a ticket, buying clothes, aquiring the latest sound track etc. I have heard of people trying on exclusive garments in Grafton St and then buying the same stuff on line at half price. the days of the high street shops renting in expensive streets are numbered.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

No, i am crippled without it

I wouldn't be able to make it through a work day without the internet...

Tha Gopher

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Its like the Mobile Phone we have become so accustomed to it that one wonders how you could have lived without them.

I think there is a big difference in fairness.

I could live without it if it was done away with tomorrow. Wouldnt like it but it wouldnt be as bad as no mobile.

Imagine a world were rather than the hassle of booking cheap flights online we could just go to some Ryanair office in town and book for maybe 5 euro more than now.

Id miss porn, Bebo and youtube, mainly because youtube

a- Gives access to ancient hip hop/dance vids MTV never bother showing

b- Classic football

Apart from that...meh.


Oh yeah, Im not sure Id have a job without it. Apart from that....meh.

As for mobiles I truly cannot fathom how the world existed without them. How the fcuk did a group of mates from different parts of the city meet in town at night? How did you get a birds phone number? Calling all the time from payphones if you had no landline.....jaysus!!!!

whatsgoinon

My laptop went on the blink on friday afternoon, no music, no chatting, no dvd's, I don't have a tv, couldn't do any of my millions of reports, started writing them by hand, then just read a book, thought i was going to go mad with boredom. Paid £50 quid for it to be fixed on saturday and am much happier now. All my friends live in cyber space. It is pretty sad, but what can you do when they all live all over the world. Was wondering what I did before facebook, internet etc...

JC 2K3

I'm a computer nerd and spend a lot of time on the internet, but whenever I'm away from it doing something else I don't miss it. It's just something I use to keep me occupied really.

Ballerina

id definitely get better grades in college without it...and way more sleep

i dont even enjoy the time i spend on it because im always thinking "i should really get off the internet and do this that and the other"

addicted in a bad way

_Kaiser_

Tha Gopher wrote: »

As for mobiles I truly cannot fathom how the world existed without them. How the fcuk did a group of mates from different parts of the city meet in town at night? How did you get a birds phone number? Calling all the time from payphones if you had no landline.....jaysus!!!!

OK.. I'll have a stab at this (being 32 thus old enough to remember the "world before mobiles" )

You called each other before hand and agreed to meet in a certain place at a certain time - and you were there! - same thing when meeting girls (although you always added on about 20 minutes in that case!)

I got my first mobile in 1998 and 10 years on, still have the same number - I don't understand how people can constantly change numbers without driving everyone mad! But I do remember getting a bus home in 1994/95 when some guy's mobile started ringing. Cue all the lads down the back slagging the "yuppie, poser" etc etc. Who'd have ever guessed that only a few years later, you'd be thought of as on the bread line if you don't have one!

Re the internet.. I use it as part of the job and would be lost without msn messenger for keeping in touch with mates that've since moved away and settled down, but while the laptop may be usually on, I'l be getting on with other things as well and I've no problem unplugging and spending some time in the "real world".

GLaDOS

It wouldn't be living without the internet

Toto Wolfcastle

I rely on the internet for resources for college and work that you can't get in hte library, etc, so it wouldn't be great if I didn't have the internet.

I sometimes find myself staring at the screen thinking 'I think I've just finished the internet' and I get bored but I always seem to find something to do online!

In my apartment I only have internet in my room and I've found that I value TV over the internet so I'm able to leave the computer alone!

In mammy's house we have wireless so if I'm home I spend the day online while watching tv.

But I could quit the internet, no problem!

JavaBear

If I didn't have the internet right now.. I would probably be doing something more productive.

Schism

No, i am crippled without it

I certainly could live without the internet but I wouldn't want to.

I think I have a problem...

DEmeant0r

Actually for me, having to live without the mobile or internet wouldn't be as bad as having to live without my music, i'd go completely mental without it, I even study whilst listening to music -_-;;

bronte

I lost my internet for a month there last year, it was shocking how much I actually rely on it. Madness!

The Queen

I voted no, I'm cripples without it, but I wouldn't be crippled! Lost, and confused yes. Cripped - no

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

could live without telly. would love to live without it in fact. living without internet = no

phantom_lord

i haven't watched tv in weeks.

Tar.Aldarion

phantom_lord wrote: »

i haven't watched tv in weeks.

I watch one or two tv programmes a year.



I'd be fine without the net, sure it would suck but there are a lot of books to read, and more board games to play.

TimTim

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I watch one or two tv programmes a year.



I'd be fine without the net, sure it would suck but there are a lot of books to read, and more board games to play.

No I doubt I could go for any period of time without the internet and I'd run out of books eventually! I wouldn't be able to buy more from Amazon...

Gummy Panda

No. I love the internet. Stopped watching tv cause of it though i do download tv shows

orestes

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Re the internet.. I use it as part of the job and would be lost without msn messenger for keeping in touch with mates that've since moved away and settled down, but while the laptop may be usually on, I'l be getting on with other things as well and I've no problem unplugging and spending some time in the "real world".

Real world? That still exists?!

Yeah I'm addicted to the damned thing. Screw what did we do before mobiles, how did we ever get by without lolcats?! God I love those furry little critters

Gummy Panda

orestes wrote: »

Screw what did we do before mobiles, how did we ever get by without lolcats?! God I love those furry little critters

GOD DAMN YOU!!

Gonna end up looking through those pics on lolcats.com for ages

Krieg

No, i am crippled without it

I guess Id be considered an internet addict. I spend on average, 6 hours per day on the computer, most of which is internet related. But I could live without it, Anytime the internet was down I just found something else negative to waste my time with. I wouldnt go out of my way to get the internet back (Internet cafe's etc)

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I watch one or two tv programmes a year.



I'd be fine without the net, sure it would suck but there are a lot of books to read, and more board games to play.

Totally agree with you. Have Doestvsky (sic) "Crime and Punishment" waiting to be read. From what i've read of it so far its a truly amazing book. Yet, keep on getting distracted by easier forms of entertainment like the telly.

orestes

Gummy Panda wrote: »

GOD DAMN YOU!!

Gonna end up looking through those pics on lolcats.com for ages

You're welcome!

emeraldstar

Definately couldn't live without it. In my apartment in college I don't have the net so if I stay for the weekend, by the time Monday morning comes round I'm absolutely dying to get into college to use the wireless ....sad really, but no, can't live without it, I'm totally addicted. When I'm home I'm on my laptop for around 80% of the day I'd say :eek:

Mint Sauce

nope, have about 7 or 8 sites open all day, and their just work related

have about 4 open right now, and am at home

galwayrush

Good place to make my 1000th post.
NO.:rolleyes:

Cunny-Funt

It's also the whole, wealth of information thing at my finger tips.

I'm one inquisitive mothertrucker. I have questions about everything, why why why etc. I want information and I want it ****ing yesterday!

Used to do my parents heads in as a kid. The net gives me answers in an instant. No matter how silly the question, or how deep and philosophical.

When you get so used to having answers at your figure tips in an instant, it can be REAL annoying when that's taken away.

I'm also a computer nerd where the majority of my entertainment is on a computer (video games, forums and TV shows) so without the net a computer just feels like an empty shell.

AlmightyCushion

I could live without it but I'd really hate to.`

Tar.Aldarion

TimTim wrote: »

No I doubt I could go for any period of time without the internet and I'd run out of books eventually! I wouldn't be able to buy more from Amazon...

There are libraries and book shops.

Red Hand

Would loose almost instant contact with a few people who I am far away from, but that could easily be replaced by letter/phone etc.

Of course I could live without it.

Nope. I've been hopelessly addicted to the Internet since I was about 13. I lived in the middle of nowhere and there were no other kids around so it was my only entertainment really. Even now, I thankfully have more of a life but I still spend hours on the thing every day. I do everything on it. When the connection plays up I go to the internet cafe. I nearly got fired from my job for browsing on random sites instead of doing work. I should probably be at Internet Addicts Anonymous or something.

humbert

Well aside from the fact it's necessary in work I could live without it but I'd seriously miss it. Didn't have it where I was living for a while and every so often I'd come upon something I didn't know I think, "better google that", and realise it wasn't possible.

It dawned on me how dependent my so called knowledge on a lot of things was on the interweb. I don't so much know things as know of their existance and know where to find further details

Gekko

It's quite scary how dependent I am on it for so much.

ironictoaster

No, i am crippled without it

Gekko wrote: »

It's quite scary how dependent I am on it for so much.

Agreed.

Recently I my internet went down for around 2 days and to be honest I felt I was going to explode....

ericl

I need it more than ever now, NTHell cut my pipe in error on wednesday and cant get anybody to fix it till the 28th.:mad:

Mossy Monk

I need it for work so no, I cannot live without it.

ronano

i'd survive it would just make me life a bit more difficult and consume more of my time.

i pay bills,check maps/cinema times along with downloading various things

Black Swan

Food, clothing, shelter, Internet...

Limerick Dude

Im 19 now, i got broadband first when i was 15 and in my own room, since then ive gotten so addicted, moved to Dublin for college last september and for the first few weeks we didnt have internet in the house, worst few weeks ever, seriously couldnt cope! Then had the biggest feeling of relief when i was able to check my gmail and all the various forums and social sites that i use.

Id be lost without the internet, i love you internet!

Ballerina

irish-stew wrote: »

nope, have about 7 or 8 sites open all day, and their just work related

have about 4 open right now, and am at home

HOW do you resist the urge to open non work related sites, like boards, during the day??

TEACH ME YOUR SECRET!!