It’s more addictive than any drug!
Discussion
The internet is.
If it were £100 a month, I think people would pay it or like drug addicts source it illegally.
For me ( and I’m not even a social media user) I literally can’t go more than an hour or two without it.
If my house didn’t have WiFi the thought of sitting watching TV, reading a book or actually talking to fill the time is simply alien to me.
How do others feel?
If it were £100 a month, I think people would pay it or like drug addicts source it illegally.
For me ( and I’m not even a social media user) I literally can’t go more than an hour or two without it.
If my house didn’t have WiFi the thought of sitting watching TV, reading a book or actually talking to fill the time is simply alien to me.
How do others feel?
Thankyou4calling said:
The internet is.
If it were £100 a month, I think people would pay it or like drug addicts source it illegally.
For me ( and I’m not even a social media user) I literally can’t go more than an hour or two without it.
If my house didn’t have WiFi the thought of sitting watching TV, reading a book or actually talking to fill the time is simply alien to me.
How do others feel?
I think you'd adjust - I've deployed to places where there is little or no access to internet and you do end up living like you did 20 years + ago. Having little or poor and patchy internet is worse, by the way!If it were £100 a month, I think people would pay it or like drug addicts source it illegally.
For me ( and I’m not even a social media user) I literally can’t go more than an hour or two without it.
If my house didn’t have WiFi the thought of sitting watching TV, reading a book or actually talking to fill the time is simply alien to me.
How do others feel?
Up until a few years ago I didn’t have a data connection on my mobile. My wife did so I’d happily piggy back that
But time alone out and about seemed fine without the internet
Now, i couldn’t imagine not being quickly be able to check something
You can understand why dictators don’t like it
But time alone out and about seemed fine without the internet
Now, i couldn’t imagine not being quickly be able to check something
You can understand why dictators don’t like it
My in laws live in rural shropshire in an old (ex headmasters) house, small primary school still next door.
Apart from the primary school, a pub which only opens 2nights a week + sunday lunch and an old fashioned post office (which is closing in the next 6m) there's nothing of any note unless you're prepared to drive for 15-20mins.
They dont have the internet in thier house and phone signal is non existent. Once you've been for a nice walk in the village and surrounding lanes, played a board game or done a puzzle and watched TV for a few hours I'm kind of done and ready to go back to the civilised world.
They wont get the internet because they've never "needed" it up to now. When my wife was at college and sixth form she had to drive 15mins to use the computers at the local library, they'd stopped dial up by that point. They still use the yellow pages on a daily occurrence if they need to find any info about something.
All the info they rely on is from word of mouth, newspapers and TV/radio.
(They're both in thier mid 60s)
Apart from the primary school, a pub which only opens 2nights a week + sunday lunch and an old fashioned post office (which is closing in the next 6m) there's nothing of any note unless you're prepared to drive for 15-20mins.
They dont have the internet in thier house and phone signal is non existent. Once you've been for a nice walk in the village and surrounding lanes, played a board game or done a puzzle and watched TV for a few hours I'm kind of done and ready to go back to the civilised world.
They wont get the internet because they've never "needed" it up to now. When my wife was at college and sixth form she had to drive 15mins to use the computers at the local library, they'd stopped dial up by that point. They still use the yellow pages on a daily occurrence if they need to find any info about something.
All the info they rely on is from word of mouth, newspapers and TV/radio.
(They're both in thier mid 60s)
selym said:
I think you'd adjust - I've deployed to places where there is little or no access to internet and you do end up living like you did 20 years + ago. Having little or poor and patchy internet is worse, by the way!
I had this in The Seychelles last year. 2 weeks with no phone since roaming was so much. It was really nice to be able to go and 'live' the moment. Didn't think about checking anything or what was going on. Just right. Would have a check in in the afternoon, but our room didn't get Wi-Fi signal. Normally at home if there's no internet, or I'm bored of it I'll potter. Stick the radio on and tidy things and mess about in the garage. It's quite nice really.AndyB180 said:
We don’t have the internet at home apart from mobile data. We’ve absolutely no use for it at all.
We are similar in as much as we got rid of home broadband and just have data via our mobile phone contracts. Haven’t found it an issue whatsoever and in fact I am much better off (£600 per annum).
selym said:
Thankyou4calling said:
The internet is.
If it were £100 a month, I think people would pay it or like drug addicts source it illegally.
For me ( and I’m not even a social media user) I literally can’t go more than an hour or two without it.
If my house didn’t have WiFi the thought of sitting watching TV, reading a book or actually talking to fill the time is simply alien to me.
How do others feel?
I think you'd adjust - I've deployed to places where there is little or no access to internet and you do end up living like you did 20 years + ago. Having little or poor and patchy internet is worse, by the way!If it were £100 a month, I think people would pay it or like drug addicts source it illegally.
For me ( and I’m not even a social media user) I literally can’t go more than an hour or two without it.
If my house didn’t have WiFi the thought of sitting watching TV, reading a book or actually talking to fill the time is simply alien to me.
How do others feel?
Ambleton said:
My in laws live in rural shropshire in an old (ex headmasters) house, small primary school still next door.
Apart from the primary school, a pub which only opens 2nights a week + sunday lunch and an old fashioned post office (which is closing in the next 6m) there's nothing of any note unless you're prepared to drive for 15-20mins.
They dont have the internet in thier house and phone signal is non existent. Once you've been for a nice walk in the village and surrounding lanes, played a board game or done a puzzle and watched TV for a few hours I'm kind of done and ready to go back to the civilised world.
They wont get the internet because they've never "needed" it up to now. When my wife was at college and sixth form she had to drive 15mins to use the computers at the local library, they'd stopped dial up by that point. They still use the yellow pages on a daily occurrence if they need to find any info about something.
All the info they rely on is from word of mouth, newspapers and TV/radio.
(They're both in thier mid 60s)
That’s just your quirky in-laws. The school next door will have an internet connection as will all the neighbours. I have better connectivity in rural Shropshire than many of my suburban dwelling friends in the Home Counties.Apart from the primary school, a pub which only opens 2nights a week + sunday lunch and an old fashioned post office (which is closing in the next 6m) there's nothing of any note unless you're prepared to drive for 15-20mins.
They dont have the internet in thier house and phone signal is non existent. Once you've been for a nice walk in the village and surrounding lanes, played a board game or done a puzzle and watched TV for a few hours I'm kind of done and ready to go back to the civilised world.
They wont get the internet because they've never "needed" it up to now. When my wife was at college and sixth form she had to drive 15mins to use the computers at the local library, they'd stopped dial up by that point. They still use the yellow pages on a daily occurrence if they need to find any info about something.
All the info they rely on is from word of mouth, newspapers and TV/radio.
(They're both in thier mid 60s)
And the broadband companies know it now too, which is why it goes up nearly every time you renew and also, even more annoyingly they roll you into yearly price increases. It never used to but I think now it is treated, maybe rightly as a utility.
The issue with that is that in most locations it is not like for like, BT or Virgin or whoever else can perhaps only offer you the best deal, not everyone.
So it has now become a bit of s postcode lottery in my view in some locations.
The issue with that is that in most locations it is not like for like, BT or Virgin or whoever else can perhaps only offer you the best deal, not everyone.
So it has now become a bit of s postcode lottery in my view in some locations.
What are you doing if not social media?
BTW I'd class PH forums as a form of social media.
There's a lot of info coming out into just how addictive and unhealthy SM is, if you can't leave it then you really should be trying to, at least starting with SM free days. Its quite liberating, and I don't consider myself a heavy user, I can go all day or spend an evening reading a book without referring to it.
BTW I'd class PH forums as a form of social media.
There's a lot of info coming out into just how addictive and unhealthy SM is, if you can't leave it then you really should be trying to, at least starting with SM free days. Its quite liberating, and I don't consider myself a heavy user, I can go all day or spend an evening reading a book without referring to it.
Teddy Lop said:
What are you doing if not social media?
BTW I'd class PH forums as a form of social media.
There's a lot of info coming out into just how addictive and unhealthy SM is, if you can't leave it then you really should be trying to, at least starting with SM free days. Its quite liberating, and I don't consider myself a heavy user, I can go all day or spend an evening reading a book without referring to it.
hmmmm - what other video streaming sites are there...BTW I'd class PH forums as a form of social media.
There's a lot of info coming out into just how addictive and unhealthy SM is, if you can't leave it then you really should be trying to, at least starting with SM free days. Its quite liberating, and I don't consider myself a heavy user, I can go all day or spend an evening reading a book without referring to it.
StevieBee said:
I'm sure past generations discussed the same in terms of books, radio and TV. In fact, as far as books were concerned, governments tried all they could to suppress their rise in popularity for fear of the masses gaining wider insight into what's happening. Nothing new under the sun.
no. There's something very different about the combination of social media partnered with its accessibility via smartphones. I'm not IMO "hooked" like many but I can still waste hours and hours procrastinating when I have other stuff to do, or feel the compulsion to check what's new when I'm doing something else, when there's nothing really important to see.
While there are people who'll veg out in front of the telly all day it doesn't really have that changing, evolving, feedback loop pressure that highly active minds can succumb to
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