I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.
I don’t have withdrawal symptoms without the Internet, but I certainly get bored without it since I use it a lot. So maybe 70-80% addicted. I’ve never known a world without it and here I am spending most of my free time watching videos when I’m not listening to music locally stored on my devices or on CD. That, and doing a lot of online looking when I’m not playing games, some of which are Internet/data (because mobile) required. Internet is a huge part of my mortal life right now, but at least I’m self aware enough to know I’m addicted to Hell and back.
Probably about 80% addicted. In saying that though, if there is no internet for whatever reason I’m fine. Everything is self hosted on my local network, eg Jellyfin, Mealie, Navidrome. Plus a bunch of games and an Xbox. I don’t find it hard to keep myself occupied without internet with other things too like cooking, gardening, exercise and organising.
20, I would love the world without internet back.
The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.
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.
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 ;)
We just came out of a 1 week long isolation due to cyclone Chido. I started weaning after five days, and I felt like a new man. I’d say 20% now. Probably 70% or so before
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I would literally starve to death.
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
When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.
