How Attached to the Internet Are You?

[efolger997]

I've decided to give up Internet for a month. Starting yesterday, December 13, to January 13.
The exceptions: all Sims websites (because TS3 is really the only thing I enjoy doing, besides reading. I don't watch TV or movies or play other video games or go on YouTube), my e-mail, websites I need to go on for school, and news websites.
Websites I won't be visiting: Facebook, Twitter, DeviantART, blogs, humor websites, StumbleUpon, YouTube, basically anything else.
I wanted to try to do this because I do waste a lot of time on the Internet, and not just on Mod the Sims, haha. I mean, on those websites with "funny" pictures, and liking random pages on Facebook, and stuff like that. Plus so much on the Internet is negative. Sims websites and my e-mail aren't, though. I guess news sites are pretty negative, but I don't want to live under a rock!
I was wondering: how attached are you to the Internet? Do you think my experiment would be fun? 'Cause about every 10 minutes I have the impulse to check Facebook! :P

[hannahmh87]

:blink: Give up the internet? I couldn't do it I don't think...

I mainly use the internet for sims, facebook, and email but still it's all useful!

[Darby]

I'd hardly call what you're doing "giving up the internet" for a month, and I bet despite the limits you're setting, you'll be on more than you think you will be, but I applaud the effort!

I'm definitely more attached to the internet than is healthy. I stopped obsessing on facebook several months ago, but I've just replaced it with other internet activity. It's really embarrassing to admit, but when I'm home and awake, I'm on my computer probably... 80% of the time. Housework and other real life chores are sorely neglected. It's a genuine, actual problem.

I know I'm not alone in this either, and I think the idea of an internet "fast" (or serious reduction, at least) is excellent. I don't see myself attempting any such thing any time soon, but I try to be open to the idea. It does occur, now and then.

[maxon]

I think I pretty much have it IV now.


I'm definitely more attached to the internet than is healthy. I stopped obsessing on facebook several months ago, but I've just replaced it with other internet activity. It's really embarrassing to admit, but when I'm home and awake, I'm on my computer probably... 80% of the time. Housework and other real life chores are sorely neglected. It's a genuine, actual problem.
Yerse - housework is overrated anyway.

I know I'm not alone in this either, and I think the idea of an internet "fast" (or serious reduction, at least) is excellent. I don't see myself attempting any such thing any time soon, but I try to be open to the idea. It does occur, now and then.
Let's not be hasty.

[Zexxa]

But I love the internet. I can't give it up. It's always there when I need it.

[Mistermook]

I'm on the internet enough that when I went to a faster connection speed recently I ended up scratching my head trying to figure out what to do with all my extra free time, and when the strangers on the internet folks I "hang out with" have too much to do to post stuff I sometimes end up spinning my wheels. On the other hand, I'm not completely addicted to it. I occasionally do long stretches of mostly real life stuff, and when things are busy I forget about the internet entirely. At least I come by it honestly - I've had this sort of pattern pretty much continuously (with the exception of some years in my twenties after my first business failed and I was really, really poor) since the late 80s and I was in high school. I didn't have the internet back then, but the same gaps were filled with BBS's and FIDONET boards. At least most of you guys are far, far away from me - I decided long ago that the very worst thing for my sanity was when my computer life and real life started mixing. It was bad when I worked in computers, it was bad with "meet ups" and meeting the miscreants I talk to in person, and it was the absolute worst when my real life friends talked me into online gaming with them.

When I lack internet access and such, the thing I find most disturbing is how terrible my memory has become now that my very first urge when confronted with a lack of information is to outsource the answer to the internet. I'm just glad that for now the Internet is still too stupid to answer professional questions I might have to answer, because I'm pretty sure the "guy who knew everything about movies" is working at Arby's now that there's IMDB.

[SimsLover50]

I am trying to limit internet after 9 pm on weeknights. Sadly, I often fail. =-)

I think the internett has just so much useful/interesting info I cannot stay away.

[iCad]

Total addict, I'm afraid. It's been so hard the last week or so, what with my kid's wedding this weekend and having to prepare for it. I'm like, "But...but...internet, waaaaah!" Because not only is there Sims stuff, but there are a couple of fandoms that I'm somewhat prominent in and...yeah. Still, here I am, putzing on the Internet instead of cleaning something or making hotel reservations or finishing plowing the driveway (The weather gods hate me) or one of the other hundred things I need to do before Saturday morning... :p

Overall, given the choice, I'll sit on the internet 24/7 and be happy as a clam. I think this is probably not good, but...there it is. And it's really REALLY bad when I'm on the road and don't have 'net access (which is thankfully not often anymore, but it was practically all the time before there was Wi-Fi). I experience something like withdrawal, even.

Yeah, this is so not good... :lol:

[SpookyOkyBatGirl]

I admit it: I am addicted to the Internet. If I'm awake at home, I am probably on the Internet. Though I don't think it's a problem, since I do keep my room and bathroom clean, my chores and homework are always done and I walk/take care of my dog.

[vhanster]

I practically can't live without it. I never spent a single day without going online.

[KKiryu007Joker]

I practically can't live without it. I never spent a single day without going online.

Pretty much the same for me.

[efolger997]

If I was more dedicated, I'd give up the computer entirely (except for school), but I'm not ready for that yet, so Sims it is! :lol: Maybe if this goes well, I'll give it a shot. I'm sure I'd get a lot done. :)

[Oaktree]

I couldn't give up the internet. Partly because I'm kind of addicted and waste a lot of time on it, but partly because I get a lot of my learning done over the internet. Things like the science subreddit and wikipedia are intellectual gold. It would take so much longer to learn if I had to go to the library and search through the stacks to get that information.

[minimogut]

Give up? I'm not on as much as most people anyways, so I couldn't go without internet for three days, but a whole month? That would be torture.

[DrowningFishy]

I can remember the time before the internet, I can imagine a time I would willingly go back. The laptop I just got fixed broke agian; I'm going nuts. It's not like I go on FB or much like that, most times I am either on failblog, fmlife, or reading news. I also frequently check if there are any new eps of any tokusatsu. The only reason I survived these last two days with out going nuts is I managed to take sleepign pills and sleep all day (not intentional), and the day before I got hooked on watching CSI and some dude buying storage units.

[PhenethyaSim]

Pay no attention to the IV plugged into my USB drive.

[Riptide651]

MOD THE SIMS is my life! haha no, I do other things, but no internet!!! "gasp" My life is centered around internet(PSN, Iphone, skyping friends) and so fort

[Rawra]

I can't live without 9GAG, Facebook, YouTube, messenger, Google freakin' Translate, because I have some French sites I visit now and then (or, if I'm writing something in Romanian, I sometimes only know the word in English and yeah) and, why not, MTS. I can't live without le interwebz. It's impossible.

[SuicidiaParasidia]

now that i think about it, im pretty sure that if i couldnt have the internet, if i could at least still have my computer's offline games....... i wouldnt be unhappy.
im starting to get to the point where the cons outweigh the pros.
theres just so much bullcrap and idiocy on the net. sometimes its funny...mostly, its not. im sure just as much bullcrap and idiocy exist in the real world too, but at least i can slam a door in its face when it comes a-knockin'.
i only check 4 websites regularly now as it is (and one of them less regularly than the others, even). i guess the only reason i stick around for now is because sometimes, just sometimes, there is a fascinating presence to be beheld.