Internet is more and more like cable TV, so actually losing interest in it. But sure, still fun for a while.

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.

Trying to be honest with myself here. I’d say probably 80. I’d struggle hard if it went away, but breaks while rare aren’t too much of a struggle.

withdrawl symptoms

Is that when you randomly start sounding like you’re from rural Alabama?

I would literally starve to death.

About 85-90% I can handle a few days away from the internet if I have some podcasts saved, as well as some random wikipedia articles.

Currently I have about 100 podcast episodes and plenty of different wiki articles saved on my phone.

I also have several videos saved.

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

I’m definitely 100% addicted. I would probably go through some sort of mental crisis if I were shut out. But I also hate it. I want to unplug, but I’m unable.

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

Maybe like 90%. I don’t deal well with borebom and I have literally to do at home offline, and since I’m living alone in a foreign country playing board games or whatever isn’t an option. So… Yeah, good thing I wasn’t born 50 years ago.

I’m getting less addicted to the internet the more time goes on, and I remember when using the web involved a copy of lynx browser running on a BBS hosted by my local jerky company.

As long as I still have the content of my NAS, and a way to get the treats my cats like (but I can’t find locally), I’d probably be OK. I’d have to leave me house more though… I don’t love the idea of that.

I’m already at the point where I wish I didn’t have to have a smart phone.

I would say I’m 75% addicted. Like without it, if it shuts off for prolonged periods, what am I down to? I’m down to just books and whatever I acquired to make available offline like downloaded games and I’ve got quite a media collection going to delve into.

What I’ll miss the most of it is being in contact with those I’ve established a connection with such as online friends. The longer I go without speaking to them, the more things will feel hollow.

When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.

Kindof a hard question to answer. I work remotely in software. If I couldn’t use the Internet, I’d have to change fields and start working in person. But is working remotely and writing code for my day job an expression of “addiction”? How about looking up documentation while I’m writing code on my own time? Definitely something I use the Internet for, but I wouldn’t think it’s an “addiction” thing. What about updating the software on my computer? Is finding recipes online “addiction”?

Social media is “addictive”. For sure.

So, I guess if you’re counting everything I use the internet for as “addiction” and asking how well I’d fare (with 100 being extremely poorly), I’d probably have to put it pretty high. Maybe 85 or more?

If you only disallowed uses of the Internet that qualify as “addictive” such as doomscrolling or four-hour-long YouTube in-depth deep dives on invisible walls in Super Mario 64, then I don’t think I’d be really all that bad off. I might put myself at 20.

This post is a good reminder that I should save a copy of Wikipedia