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Should the internet be turned off for a week?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The Internet is just a medium, it is not responsible for how it’s used. You may as well talk about closing the roads for a week because they are used for unnecessary trips and the occasional crime.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

    People could also try being competent functioning adults and just not bother going onto social media, or even online if they don't want to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,108 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Could we just make it turn off RTE instead, followed by not turning it on again? I'd rather have the €160.


  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Could we just make it turn off RTE instead, followed by not turning it on again? I'd rather have the €160.


    I'd rather have a public service broadcaster to be honest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Of course they can.

    No, they cannot.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    No, they cannot.

    Of course they can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭wench


    Lads, its not panto season


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    but what will we **** to :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    Oh no it’s not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭shtpEdthePlum


    If they turned off the Internet I wouldn't be able to work and I might actually not log in and get work done which would make for a nice change from working all hours of every day in order to get all the work done.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Of course they can.

    OK so.


  • Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Owldshtok


    This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

    Yes for a 24 hours experiment,emergency services get a special password.
    The likes of amazon can feck off and take a break.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    The government?
    They can't "turn off the Internet"

    I can testify to the fact right now that they absolutely can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Just turn yours off. Leave mine alone:)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    So OP... You went to bed not knowing how the internet or governments work.
    Any improvement this morning?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty


    This is the first pandemic where we have had the ability to lock ourselves up at home but (for many) still earn a wage and be able to feed ourselves and pay our bills and all that good stuff.

    If the internet was turned off, the reality of having to let people get out and get on with life in order to work and survive might suddenly come into sharper focus for our leaders......


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

    That idea is so bad they might actually try it. For me it is what has helped keep my mental health stable. I can video call my fiance every night as she is in a different country, we can watch netflix together, I can work from home.

    We also can't go 5km from our house so what the hell are we supposed to do?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    No because internet is not Twitter shat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,021 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Turning off Internet for a week would cause a catastrophic financial crash given its pretty much carrys/supports most financial transactions, Stock markets and day to day banking.

    A better option is turning off every single Social Media source and portal and for a month.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    I do think people need to think long and hard about their internet usage, and what they want to get out of it. There's obviously very addictive patterns forming, with the dopamine hits making people stare gormlessly into their phone for hours.

    You can even see it on sites like this - extremely irritable, bad-tempered, and belligerent posters fighting over matters they have no influence over, giving out about RTÉ, societal changes, the price of alcohol etc. It's an outrage hamster wheel for dimwits.
    I'd agree with this. Social media gets a bad rap but this site can be much worse at times. Posters getting riled up and arguing back and forth, often for days on end, with the mental gymnastics continuing till the early hours of the morning in some cases. That can't be healthy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,886 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

    It would lead to a catastrophic economic and social collapse, so I'd say a no to that one, give yourself a break from it, if it's getting too much for you, let's not go big on this one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Social media gets a bad rap but this site can be much worse at times. Posters getting riled up and arguing back and forth, often for days on end, with the mental gymnastics continuing till the early hours of the morning in some cases. That can't be healthy.

    totally agree, someone may post a sniding comment towards you and you get wound up by it....and then you come to your senses, "why am i getting upset over a anonymous poster online?"

    it's nuts really when you think about it:confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    Imagine the embarassment of going to the newsagent again to get your porn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,615 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    About 2 years ago we didn't have a laptop for about 10 days and the internet on my then phone wasn't great, didn't notice much difference I'm a bit too old for the internet to be affecting my mental health.

    What I did notice was all the extra time I had.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Muppet Man wrote: »
    Imagine the embarrassment of going to the newsagent again to get your porn.

    like this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Muppet Man wrote: »
    Imagine the embarassment of going to the newsagent again to get your porn.
    Ahh those were the days. Nervously scanning the top shelves and buying a newspaper to hide the magazine as you awkwardly exited the shop.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    I propose that the Admins ban the OP from Boards for a week - you know, just to help them get started on their digital detox journey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    It'd only be for a week, builders and farmers lose much longer to weather every single year and not a thing about it.

    Yeah, but they are generating **** all employment in the country, and it's an expected part of their business model.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭phill106


    This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into twitter and facebook etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation. Should they do it?

    Should the production of food be turned off for a week?
    This would give everyone a break and could provide us with a huge mental health boost and make the obese lose some weight. Also it would give people a chance to realise they were gone too into meat and vegetables etc. Even if the Government just did it from say Good Friday to late on Easter Sunday night wouldn't it give us a chance for contemplation and fasting. Should they do it?

    Should the government turn off the water for a week?
    There is far too much personal hygiene and hydration these days, we should go back to the good old days where the entire family would share one bathtub, at the end it was so dirty, you would risk throwing out the baby with the bathwater.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    No, no more than the mains power or water should be turned off for a week. I'd respectfully suggest however, that Twitter and Facebook be permanently banned and Jack Dorsey be strapped to one of Elon Musk's rockets and fired into the Sun.


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