Life without internet

[Krissy Cakes]

Would you leave the country you are a citizen of if it banned Internet for anyplace else that has Internet ... or would you adjust?

 

[Krissy Cakes]

No I wouldn't. That is just dumb. Leaving the good old USA cause they banned Internet. People need to remember when there was a time when there was no Internet.

 

[TurtleHare]

There are other ways of staying connected to people besides the internet. Maybe we think we can't live without it, but with the right circumstances I would have no problem staying.

 

[psalms 91]

There was a time not so long ago when there was no internet, even the tv is not that old and people seemed to connect a lot better back then

 

[Brighten04]

No I would not leave. The internet is a new luxury.

 

[tango]

In many ways we'd become socially more impoverished without the information available on the internet, but in many other ways we'd become socially enriched. Think of the advantages - the world of internet pornography would be gone at a stroke. The times we see groups of people sitting around a table having dinner but not talking to each other because they are all fiddling on their phones would stop. In my teenage years if someone in my social circle did something stupid our friends would mock us about it for a few days and then it would be forgotten but now it's recorded and posted on YouTube or Faceache, only to mysteriously resurface years later when it can trash a job application. All that would be swept away.

The internet is great for keeping in contact but we can always pick up the phone instead. Or we can put literal pen to literal paper and write someone a letter.

 

[Chris1611]

I don't know. Part of me is happy to live a simpler life with God at the center with less distractions -- but still, there's a lot of good that can come from and be done on or through the internet.

 

[TurtleHare]

I don't know. Part of me is happy to live a simpler life with God at the center with less distractions -- but still, there's a lot of good that can come from and be done on or through the internet.

That's true. If the country banned the internet would you rally to bring it back?

Personally I would like the vacation away but my friends online I would miss. I might have to go to their countries for sanctuary.

 

[Ruth]

I wouldn't leave the country because I can't afford to. I can't seem to remember what life was like without internet!!

 

[psalms 91]

I remember growing up playing outside, talking not texting, writing letters, seemed like a simpler better way fo life

 

[Lamb]

I remember life without internet and a lot of times I felt isolated from my friends when I couldn't reach them by phone...landline. With internet that isolation feeling doesn't automatically go away when a friend chooses to ignore you.

 

[NASCAR72]

Part of me thinks I could but part of research is inseparable from the internet now because there are just so many resources available.

I work in engineering so it is especially beneficial to me as so many engineering reference books and materials are so expensive, it's really nice to just search for it online and find perhaps the one paragraph I'd need in a $200 book.

 

[TurtleHare]

Don'tcha love paying for something where you will only be using 10%? Good ole internet to save money this is true.

 

[NewCreation435]

I need the internet very little besides for email for work. I wouldn't miss it and wouldn't move anywhere else

 

[Stravinsk]

I could adjust. In some ways I think banning it would herald something of a return to a certain dark era in many ways - the freedom and variety of information, opinions and media the internet has made available has brought the world some very good things. And some not so good, of course.

Personally, I know I'd get a lot more done.

 

[MS140ukn]

i love the usa. "born in the usa" i wouldnt dare leave the country just because my precious internet was cutoff. i mean, i love the internet. i cant go a day without logging in. iam dependant on my apps to assist me daily.. im -a -stayin' no matter what

 

[psalms 91]

Yes dont need the internet