I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.
I guess I’m not too addicted, though 99.9% of all my direct communication relies on it, so that’d be the biggest blow I’d feel. I almost never play online, so I’d be fine on that, though I’d have to rely on whatever’s already installed on my computer. Maybe I have to bite the bullet and make a home media server to put all my GOG stuff there… Half of my salary just for an 8tb drive, tho 😭
I have things I could do but honestly being 100% cut off, it would be honestly difficult to go back to early 2010s for me (younger child me had not much interaction with the internet).
I would say something between 65-75%.
Maybe I wojld go to the library more often ;)I depends on how depressed I am.
Feeling good? No internet is fine, I’ll draw, worldbuild (although it’s a bit “lonely” without chatgpt), play offline games, make Mario Maker levels, romhack, work on games, compose a song, etc.
Unmotivated as hell? I’m about ready to die if I can’t scroll annoying and depressing content.
Now no power is another story. Life is nothing without electricity.
Power is actually easy to fix. Get a generator, pour fossil fuels, start it. (may cost you a bit, but its technically an option)
Internet, well the ISPs are practicallt the internet, so you can’t just become your own ISP.
1000000000000% I have neurolink to keep myself connected to the mainframe of the internet ziteghist
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.
20, I would love the world without internet back.
The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.
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 ;)
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.
I honestly can’t grasp how someone would program without being able to search the reading medium with CTRL + F.
The manual way of finding stuff in a book is annoying and laborious as hell.
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.
I’d say media like Jellyfin would count towards using the internet. It’s basically Netflix but local.
My distinction would be at having to use physical media like CDs etc. and needing to visit the shops or library to get moreThat’s fair. It would be a mild inconvenience but I would just connect my server to the HDMI on the tv. Maybe load up some USBs with music as well.
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
You can easily measure your addiction by how many tabs you have open right now.
10 of my open tabs are the same thing because I forgot I searched it already (I Googled “Amazon Teamsters strikes” in ten separate tabs “apparently”)
The others are daily games, weather, and then ChatGPT which I use for fun
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.
When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.
Internet is more and more like cable TV, so actually losing interest in it. But sure, still fun for a while.
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.
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
