I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.

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    9 hours ago

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    17 hours ago

    I’d say 99% considering I work using the internet and spend most of my time on a connected device

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    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.

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    16 hours ago

    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.

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    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 😭

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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).

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    1 day ago

    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.

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    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

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    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 would go to the library more often ;)

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    20, I would love the world without internet back.

    The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.