View Poll Results: how long could you last without the internet before you just HAD to get online?

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  • a day or less

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  • a couple of days

    2 8.33%
  • a few days

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Thread: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

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    addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    After reading ...this article where some respondents to a survey would miss the internet before they would miss sex - i felt i had to create a poll

    Survey respondents were asked how long they could go without an Internet connection and still feel "OK."

    15 percent of the group admitted to being weak-willed and said that they would only be able to last a day or less without feeling isolated and disconnected from the world.

    21 percent didn't do much better, saying they could only go a couple of days

    19 percent saying they could go "a few days."

    Only about 18 percent of the group said that they could go a week or more without being connected
    only 18% could last a week...nah!!! surely not.

    so how long could you last ?

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    . . . . i felt i had to create a poll . . . . . .?
    where

    Darn i missed that by seconds

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    some respondents to a survey would miss the internet before they would miss sex
    I suspect that for some of them, the internet is the closest that they get to sex anyway

    Absolute madness.
    I use the internet to find work and to run my business and to do so without the internet would put me at a serious disadvantage to the competition, however, I could cope without using it for anything else, just as I could cope without it altogether if there was no internet available for my competition.

    The forum, facebook other sites are very addictive, but if I can't go on there it won't hurt, honest.

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    It depends entirely on the circumstances – I can go on holiday abroad away from my computer and not miss the 'net. I don't think I could hang around the house for more than a couple of hours before I had to go and check my email or similar.

    Of course, now I'm buying an iPod touch and can take the internet with me, things may be a little different...
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    It depends entirely on the circumstances – I can go on holiday abroad away from my computer and not miss the 'net. I don't think I could hang around the house for more than a couple of hours before I had to go and check my email or similar.
    same here... if I'm at, say , a big US convention, I won't even think about internet, emails and the forum for several days...
    Now at home or at work, I feel withdrawal symptoms after a couple of hours

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    After reading ...this article where some respondents to a survey would miss the internet before they would miss sex - i felt i had to create a poll



    only 18% could last a week...nah!!! surely not.

    so how long could you last ?

    I've missed the internet for over a week before e.g on holiday.

    Havent missed sex for over a week since the internet started so cant really comment

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    I suspect that for some of them, the internet is the closest that they get to sex anyway
    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Havent missed sex for over a week since the internet started
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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    I've missed the internet for over a week before e.g on holiday.

    Havent missed sex for over a week since the internet started so cant really comment
    the internet started in the 60's so perhaps you want to clarify that "sex at least once a week" was throughout your adult life!

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Good question!

    OK - I'm game. I'll try it, starting n

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    I've only had a pooter for about a year, I managed fine without it before.

    I wish someone would take mine away from me...I might get some housework done then.

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    I rarely log on at weekends or evening unless I've got something specific to do.

    However take it away from me at work, and I'd go stark staring mad... my job tends to be either very busy or nothing to do, and most of my work is dictated by other people's requirements, so I have not control over when work comes in, and can't create work for myself. Mind you, I might have written that novel by now...

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    I don't have one, and I use the one at work and that is enough for me as I hate to be stuck on one in the evenings, I had a pc till it broke and have never replaced it, so I am not addicted to it.

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    the internet started in the 60's so perhaps you want to clarify that "sex at least once a week" was throughout your adult life!
    Who said adult life ?

    As a small boy uncle Tom use to visit me everyweek and .........................

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by sidney View Post
    I don't have one, and I use the one at work and that is enough for me as I hate to be stuck on one in the evenings,
    Thought you were talking about a sex toy then ??

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Thought you were talking about a sex toy then ??
    I don't need sex toys like some do

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    I don't need the internet..*cough* I could log off any time I wanted. *sniffs* I mean it's purely recreational use : *hugs self* i could give up any time I like I just decide not to. I don't "NEED" it.. *scratches head nervously*



    As Twirly will confirm, I get a little "stir crazy" if I'm disconnected from the "Wide wide wide world of web" for too long.

    Exhibit A - driving along the roads in Cornwall.. Lovely scenery. And me? Downloading my emails on my mobile.

    Exhibit B - trying very hard to get the "supposed" free Wifi connection in the cottage to work.

    Exhibit C - Was just into Twirly's flat. after a long days drive.. we were both tired and Twirly had to stop me from plugging in my laptop there and then to connect.

    To reference a movie (and not a very good one at that) I'm like the Lawnmower man from Lawnmower Man 2.. half of me exists in the real world... and the other half online I'm not complete unless I'm connected lol

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    Quote Originally Posted by Twirly View Post
    I rarely log on at weekends or evening unless I've got something specific to do.

    However take it away from me at work, and I'd go stark staring mad... my job tends to be either very busy or nothing to do, and most of my work is dictated by other people's requirements, so I have not control over when work comes in, and can't create work for myself. Mind you, I might have written that novel by now...
    I agree with you Twirly... except I would go much further - I hate logging on during weekends or evenings - my job is all internet based and as mine is mainly at the beck and call of other people's deadlines I either drown in work or I am all over the forum.. Here is the explanation for my abscence from the forum over the last month or so as we prepared and recovered from our biggest deadline / event of my work's year... I hope it will tail off soon, and I can return to my forum mooching fullish time

    Whitetiger

    PS There are far too many books unread, dances undanced and movies unwatched in the world for me to be online all the time!

    Give me a good dance partner, some lighter than air music, and unlimited time - and you probably wouldn't see me in here at all (well not quite - but very very nearly!)

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    Re: addicted to the internet- how long can you last?

    I have gone for a few days on the poll, coz I do internet banking and that is a major part of my business, shifting cash from one pot to another.

    e-mail is now also a part of my business for info and contact instead of letters "has to be checked at least once a week... ish".

    I started on the internet in 1991, when it was far less useful than it is today.

    anyone remember "Janet"

    I am still happy to wait a bit, I sometimes do not have my mobile on me, and then check once a day, or maybe every 2 days... I still leave letters for maybe 2 weeks before I open them... (much to my sons frustration, he sais, why don't you 'king open them)

    So I can go for a while, but if no internet, I would need to visit the bank more often, and check my phone messages more often.

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