I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.
I’d say a solid 50.
I’m fine if I have some other kind of stimulation. If I find a good book to get lost in, an engaging project, or anything else to occupy myself I don’t think of the Internet at all and kind of forget it exists.
But as soon as I’m bored and have no other mental stimulation my phone is out and I’m browsing something.People don’t go to public places to hang out anymore, so we’re dependent on the internet for that these days. Does it mean addiction? Not at all. It’s similar to drug addiction, if you’re in good health and good company, time flies when you’re sober. When you’re sitting by yourself in a small room, you’re dependent on time accelerating media devices. For me, meth accelerates time in a similar fashion, and I can spend hours sitting in a room looking out the window, no urge to look at memes in chat rooms. Meth is easier to stop for me because of harsher side effects.
I would normally be about a 60-70, but since I’m a data hoarder, The actual impact of a loss of internet on me would probably be closer to 20. I’ve got enough movies/tv/music/games/books to last decades.
It’s so bad, really. I use two phones at once, one for gaming and the other for whatever else, and I never am without a phone in my hand ever. I’m really just trying to block out the bad things that are happening to me but it’s insane too.
I watch a lot of YouTube. But I have other hobbies, games to play, books to read, and shit that needs done.
I’ll be fine.
Wtf is a hobby? All I know is doomscrolling.
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I’d say 99% considering I work using the internet and spend most of my time on a connected device
I’d say I’m probably around 20-30%. If the internet were to disappear tomorrow, the only thing it’d affect is my work which I’m not really concerned about. The only thing I’d probably miss is watching random stuff on YouTube.
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 ;)1000000000000% I have neurolink to keep myself connected to the mainframe of the internet ziteghist
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.
Always wanted to make an alternate content distrobution system. Without being an ISP, your eather not allowed to encrypt it (http only for IP over radio) or the signals dont go far enough without mass adoption (wifi mesh network) It exists but Amazon and Apple etc own it and those frequencies are a warzone. Physical distrobution is mesured is days and weeks.
A laser system mounted on rooftops that beam data back and fourth through neighborhoods?
Honorable mention: Briar - Not an internet, but good for protest communication. You could relay messages via each device in the network and potentially reach across a country (hypothetically, if everyone installed it).
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.
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 more
20, I would love the world without internet back.
The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.
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.