I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.
Must be quite high for me too since every time our internet doesn’t work I realise how little things you can do on your phone and PC that don’t rely on the internet. Even for programming you constantly need to look up things.
You can easily measure your addiction by how many tabs you have open right now.
I have 40 tabs open…I need…them
Not really, I kinda have some obsession with not wanting clutter, so I never have more than 5 tabs open.
Do your tabs reopen when you start your browser up? Because that’s a sign of addiction. Or do you start fresh with zero tabs.
Internet is more and more like cable TV, so actually losing interest in it. But sure, still fun for a while.
80 before latest USA election, 40 after. Deliberately distancing myself.
I’d been trying to do this since covid, victory!
I’d cope just fine now, I lived before widespread internet or wireless services too.
Most of what I miss about the internet is already long dead.
Idk man, might be important to know when the brownshirts are coming to your doorsteps so you can at least prepare.
Well the internet isn’t gone, I stopped at 40% addiction ;)
Trying to be honest with myself here. I’d say probably 80. I’d struggle hard if it went away, but breaks while rare aren’t too much of a struggle.
withdrawl symptoms
Is that when you randomly start sounding like you’re from rural Alabama?
Wait, y’all become a raging bigot without the internet?
Nah. I’ll just look like a scared kitten crying in the corner.
About 85-90% I can handle a few days away from the internet if I have some podcasts saved, as well as some random wikipedia articles.
Currently I have about 100 podcast episodes and plenty of different wiki articles saved on my phone.
I also have several videos saved.
I would literally starve to death.
If the internet shuts down, I’ll be basically out of a job probably, so I don’t know about addiction, I’m probably have a very bad time
It’s more of a habit than an addiction.
If I have pretty much literally anything else going on, I don’t tend to think about or miss the internet.
But if I don’t have anything else going on, I’ll probably reach for my phone or end up on a computer pretty quickly without even realizing it
I’m definitely 100% addicted. I would probably go through some sort of mental crisis if I were shut out. But I also hate it. I want to unplug, but I’m unable.
Maybe like 90%. I don’t deal well with borebom and I have literally to do at home offline, and since I’m living alone in a foreign country playing board games or whatever isn’t an option. So… Yeah, good thing I wasn’t born 50 years ago.
If you were born 50 years ago, you would have other tools to deal with boredom
I would say I’m 75% addicted. Like without it, if it shuts off for prolonged periods, what am I down to? I’m down to just books and whatever I acquired to make available offline like downloaded games and I’ve got quite a media collection going to delve into.
What I’ll miss the most of it is being in contact with those I’ve established a connection with such as online friends. The longer I go without speaking to them, the more things will feel hollow.
When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.
I’m getting less addicted to the internet the more time goes on, and I remember when using the web involved a copy of lynx browser running on a BBS hosted by my local jerky company.
As long as I still have the content of my NAS, and a way to get the treats my cats like (but I can’t find locally), I’d probably be OK. I’d have to leave me house more though… I don’t love the idea of that.
I’m already at the point where I wish I didn’t have to have a smart phone.
Jerky company?
Yeah. The dad made beef (and other) jerky, the son ran a modem pool. They both ran under the name “Taylor County Farms.”
That is wild, I miss the home grown internet
