I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.
When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.
This post is a good reminder that I should save a copy of Wikipedia
My addiction is so severe, merely the offline wikipedia doesn’t really provide the same high.
I mean its better than nothing, but you really need the memes and shitposts.
Offline wikipedia isn’t even the same, watching the real time edit-wars on ongoing events is so fun.
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
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
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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.
Idk man, might be important to know when the brownshirts are coming to your doorsteps so you can at least prepare.
Well the internet isn’t gone, I stopped at 40% addiction ;)
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.
100%. my generation is among the first to be raised online, I’m not shocked. even as a kid a lot of my memories are just of being on YouTube or playing steam games.
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.
I’d say 99% considering I work using the internet and spend most of my time on a connected device
90. I stay in contact with friends, even IRL ones, through the internet.
20, I would love the world without internet back.
The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.
I can go days without. But I spend maybe 2-4 hours a day. Sadly I work remote, so I get bored. But during holidays and staycations, I hardly pick up my phone, let alone a laptop. 30. 30 is my addiction number.
Hello stranger. I would just like to thank you for using the phrase “let alone” correctly. As far as I can remember, this is my first such sighting on Lemmy. Thank you.
Probably 90%. Whenever my internet or power goes out, I have literally nothing to do at home. Maybe I should get a board game.
+1 to beating yourself in chess 😅
(You can also read wikipedia offline. Search “Kiwix”)
+1 to beating yourself in chess 😅
Somehow my Elo still dropped.
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.
