maqroll Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Sometimes I consider taking a year off the internet. I think I might really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted May 12, 2017 Moderator Share Posted May 12, 2017 I don't think I could last a day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12, 2017 Yes, but the disadvantages would outweigh the advantages. I'm an information geek. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) Yes although I think my phone is a bigger issue than the Internet. I can feel my attention span shortening everyday. Edited May 12, 2017 by villaglint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 34 minutes ago, maqroll said: Sometimes I consider taking a year off the internet. I think I might really like it. I think we might like it too 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said: I think we might like it too Referee! Post on poster! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted May 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12, 2017 I hardly use it, apart for work-related stuff. I pop in here when I'm bored at work but other than that, I check Facebook on a weekly basis and occasionally use it to find new music or movies. I doubt it'd make much difference to my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 12, 2017 Moderator Share Posted May 12, 2017 I'm a contradiction. Like Mike, I'm an information geek, and I'll be looking stuff up as and when it comes on the TV, always looking for more info on this or that. It never stops, and I love it because it's interesting. Or I'll be chatting to mates or posting/reading on here or getting wound up by political or celebrity banality on twitter or facebook. Yet despite all of that, I'm not one of these people who gets anxious if they leave their phone behind in the house, or if it's about to die. I actually find that quite liberating. Knowing I can't be contacted/interrupted. It's like I'm free or I've briefly 'escaped' the suffocating clutches of the modern world. I'll have days where I give the net a rest, save for a chat with mates, but I think in my line of work it would be genuinely difficult to avoid the internet whether I wanted to or not . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Don't have a smart phone. If I'm away - No internet and I'm attentive to whoever I'm with. Find it a good balance. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I only look at my phone a few times a day these days. I look around on the train every day and there are fit birds left and right but everyone is more interested in Facebook and the like, that cannot be good can it. I ditched Facebook years ago and feel so much better without it. I think I could manage without the internet in the summer possibly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I could easily do without the social aspect of the the Internet but not the instant access to info and porn. I almost never use my phone for the Internet anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Not the internet, but social media. I can spend hours lying in bed before falling asleep on facebook, twitter, instagram and youtube and half the stuff on there just winds me up. I hate myself for it, what an utter waste of time. I'd just like to find a healthy balance I think. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Nope. But then, I don't use facebook, and use twitter and instagram very infrequently. A half hour browse of reddit once an evening is enough of a fill of internet stupidness/quirkyness, I tend to find (although I may spend more time on some of my favourite subs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 49 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: I think we might like it too 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted May 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12, 2017 Absolutely not. I feel like I may have missed something when I go half a day without internet access. I simply couldn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12, 2017 No. The disadvantages of not using the internet would be huge these days, for me anyway. Whatever that says about me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I use it daily for work, and I use it daily informally while at work. I strive for info; I couldn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 3 hours ago, mjmooney said: Yes, but the disadvantages would outweigh the advantages. I'm an information geek. I'm with the Moon Man. I do find it liberating to not be on online ALL the time, so it comes down to a case of moderating your own usage. As with everything really; booze etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 The Internet might be a distraction from more concentrated and serious work but I dread to imagine what the outcome would be if I was only exposed to the mainstream media. The Internet might be full of people who are ideologically possessed but suffering the unchallenged brainwashing of the mainstream media would be to swallow the blue pill. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Sometimes I like a break off VT but I could never give up the net completely as I like reading too much shit all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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