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I used to be bad for wanting to stay in contact with the world, I went to a small Island for a weeks holiday and lasted 5 days before buying an hours internet to check the flight were still on time and that UK was still there
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Work requires the internet. I am constantly having to work at the moment, granted sometimes for just 15 min a day.
But as a result, I have to be really well behaved. sometimes I'll give up forums / HN for a bit.
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Originally Posted by TheAnimus
Tend to be without it if I go on holiday, and I was without it for a couple of weeks when I moved house earlier this year.
Yes I missed it, since it's how I talk to a lot of my friends, and I enjoy reading and posting on a couple of different forums, in theory to help others and increase my own understand in a variety of ways. But it's not the end of the world certainly
I do get withdrawal symptoms - the feeling of not being in touch - when I don't have connectivity, but after a day that passes and it's really pleasant - life seems to slow down!
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My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute
I end up going without the Internet quite often.
Some on here already know that I work offshore (on oil platforms in the middle of the North Sea, and other locations), most places these days have open internet access - even open wireless access to any device you take on board. But there are still some oil companies that have everything locked down and only allow access through their own computers and only with a corporate network log in, which is pretty much impossible to get for the likes of me.
I wouldn't say I'm more productive, or my quality of life improves, but I do end up reading a lot more books.
If i have too, i could go without it. The thing is, my natural thing to do when i get home is to go on the internet.
The always on life we now tend to leed is from my pov is having a negitive effect on quaility of life.
Like you and others have noted when i have taken a 'holiday' the first day or two is hard because you miss the 'fix' but quickly you forget about it and start getting on with having a good time.
It's like anything; too much is bad for you and the internet is so easy to have too much. I am off work for a week at the start of the new year and i intend to not turn my computer / phone on and just enjoy the simpler things in life.
what do u do at home then? watch a load of TV? Thats my only fix if stuck at home without using the computer and internet.
the weather in the UK is also dire so not much to do outside either.
Life without internet? Spend life doing the "googling" in a library... reading physical journals instead of e-journals... honestly the hardest part is just the lack ofnsearching and sifting through e-resources...
Trouble is the library can contain outdated info.
I find it boring just sitting at home reading books all day. i rather do something like maybe some DIY work. Really for me internet and computing keeps me occupied in days when im just at home with nothing to do.
Really and truelly its the poor weather and the fact that as soon as you step out of the door you have to start paying for the air you breath makes it less appealing to go outside and do an activity in this shoddy crap weather.
Already i sometimes go out in central london taking pics but recently the weather has been terrible!
If i was living in a hot summer country i would hardly be at home infront of a computer!
Normally i don't watch TV; it's full of drivel these days.
I intend to go for walks / ride the bike more even if the weather is horrid; 'theres no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes'
I also have a back log of books that i will read
In the good old days we'd surf the web and only leave an electronic footprint; nowadays, we leave an electronic fingerprint. Today's yoof will share their e-souls on facebook if they're not careful.
Cold turkey at Christmas? Never, always like mine warm.
Well it's as good as, already. I say to people, "if you left a photo album with pictures of all your friends and family, & their " ", with very hefty clues as to where they work, their kids go to school, and all the rest of it, in a pubful of strangers - wouldn't you go 'yikes, dammit' & nip back & get it? And the difference to an unlocked FB is..?" (Needless to say they just give you the 'poor soul you don't get it/you're just paranoid/out of touch look).Today's yoof will share their e-souls on facebook if they're not careful
santa claus (31-12-2013)
Well, just had (until Tuesday) almost a month away, and my internet exposure consisted of ONE brief connection, maybe 10-15 minutes, in a cafe wih a net connection. That gave me time to :-
- answer a quick PM from a friend here
- check net prices for something I was thinking of buying (but, as it turned out, didn't)
- have a quick look round the forums.
Other than that, it's been a net-free almost-month.
And have I missed it? Not really. And if I'd had a Hexus-only link, I'd certainly cope for much longer.
All told, what this tells me is that, as I supposed, I could manage with a net connection. I'd certainly miss Hexus, but there's a LOT of the net I wouldn't miss if I never saw it again in my life.
What surprises me is that I was a VERY early adopter in the online world. I ran a bulletin board (Wildcat software) in the days of quad modems (Dowty quattro, and later US Robotics 14.4k modems, when they were £1000 a time, and I had two on the BBS, and was paying for two phone lines on top of that.
Then, I was an early member of CIX (Compulink Information eXchange, for anyone curious) which was something like a UK-centric social media centre/forum community before those terms really meant anything. It was great for meeting all sorts of people, and I'm still grateful for some writing advice I received from none other than Terry Pratchet, who well well-known and well-respected even then, if not the superstar fantasy legend he is today.
And I've been deeply involved in inline activity ever since.
Yet, I'm feeling increasingly jaded about it. I'm not sure why, though.
I THINK it might be due to increasing nosiness from both government and, more worryingly, corporations. When even the BBC don't seem to be able to operate with plugging Facebook and Twitter at every opportunity, and corporations big and small seem to think they have a right to, and worse, actually own, any data about me they can get their hands on, and that all the net is is a marketing vehicle for them, I'm getting increasingly fed up with it.
What is starting to feel increasingly appealing is to deliberately have a VERY limited internet exposure, to deliberately isolate myself from most of it. I'd keep Hexus, and perhaps do the occasional rummage in online shops, but other than that, go turkey. And not even have an email address, or at least, not one I ever use.
We are probably moving. I would have insisted on a decent connection as being mandatory, but now, I'm wondering if it's even desirable?
Note: I don't need the net for work. Lots of you lot do, but I don't. In fact, I only work when I want to, which is less and less these days, for all sorts of reasons I'm not going into. I'm not well off, but we can cope, especially if I give up buying tech toys.
I could cope without any net activity at all, though it wouldn't be my first choice. But I could cope if we moved to a remote location with no more net connection than the local library of an occasional net cafe.
I am now sure I am not a net addict. I like some aspects of it, but I could cope, and fairly easily, without. And that surprised me. Considerably.
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