How long could you take a break from the internet and your cellphone?

I say 2-3 days....

For as long as I could get away from my work.



By the way, Syzygys, while moderating, I noticed you start a lot of interesting threads in the forums I moderate,
These are your last few threads from this year

Can you take a virtual break?
Interspecies adoption
G spot found by Italian doctors
Wealth and religiosity
Suicide town, UK
Moscow is most expensive city
Eagles can swim
Prolotherapy
Why so few famous kidnappings?
High school teacher finally learns to read
Overdose: accidental or not?
Working inside and outside of Walmart...
British breasts are getting bigger
Female dogs growling
Cat getting old

Thanks

I don't own a cellphone (tried it out before, didn't like it).

When my studies get serious, I can avoid the internet for a very long time. I left this site for about two months on two different occasions because my schedule got busy.

As long as I must, but as little as possible.

If I'm not working (I need internet for my work) I still keep contacts with my friends, learn of events, concerts, hikes, gatherings, fun things to do, etc., so I see no reason why I should stay disconnected.

I don't own a cell phone either. I've taken a few weeks away from here when I went on vacation as well as 2 or 3 days away once in awhile. Being connected to the net isn't a bad thing for you can learn many interesting things on it as well as allot of great pornographic images as well. ;)

By the way, Syzygys, while moderating, I noticed you start a lot of interesting threads in the forums I moderate,


Well, thanks for noticing. I will tell my secret: Digg.com

They dig it up, I repost it. :)

Now going back to topic, nowadays they say you are really rich or powerful if you can afford not to be aviable...

Being connected to the net isn't a bad thing for you

hm, ask Asguard's girlfriend. the point is that it can be addictive and can destroy normal relationships...

And lonely.

How long could you take a break from the internet and your cellphone?I have a cellphone but it's a pay-per-minute unit that is only for emergencies. There are only three people in my life that I talk with regularly and land lines work fine for us. My communication with the rest of my friends is entirely via e-mail and boards such as SciForums. I live on my computer and the internet is my connection to everyone except those three people. And even with two of them I have more e-mail conversations than telephony. The third is a Luddite with no computer and I find the resulting narrow bandwidth of our communication to be a cause of sadness.And lonely.I am far less lonely today than I was before the internet was invented. When I was a child we lived out in the desert with very little human companionship. I had phone conversations with a handful of friends but I spent most of my time alone. Even when I moved to a city as a young adult it was difficult to find people that I enjoyed communicating with. With the internet I have friends all over the world that share common interests.

In the old days many guys my age were called "lonely old men." The threshold for "old" is a decade or two higher than it was then, but I know several people in their 70s and 80s who are not lonely, specifically because of the internet. One retired man spends many hours in an MMPRPG, having the time of his life.

That's my point, mobile phones and internet enrich your social life.

I've been getting much better at my spelling than ever before, that's one upside to posting stuff.

How long could you take a break from the internet and your cellphone?

I say 2-3 days....


i dont have a mobile phone, i think they are awful, your on the bus some person is listening to a song that is comng through tinny speakers and it sounds awful, your in a resturant and some one is tlaking loudly on they're phone, and oyur in the cinema and some one is talking loudly while your watching the film,

and i moved house last year and i was woithout the internet for 2 weeks

i dont have a mobile phone, i think they are awful, your on the bus some person is listening to a song that is comng through tinny speakers and it sounds awful, your in a resturant and some one is tlaking loudly on they're phone, and oyur in the cinema and some one is talking loudly while your watching the film,
That's not a logical argument. You are talking about how some people sometimes use the device in a socially unacceptable way and equate it with the device itself.

Fraggle you described your situation, but didn't answer the question, so let's repeat it again:

How long can you go without internet and cellphones?

That's not a logical argument. You are talking about how some people sometimes use the device in a socially unacceptable way and equate it with the device itself.

i dont havea mobile because i know i would do exactly whhat they do, and it pisses me of when it happens so i stay away from them, i had a phone and i was mugged and didnt bother getting a new one.

Fraggle you described your situation, but didn't answer the question, so let's repeat it again: How long can you go without internet and cellphones?As I said, I only keep a cellphone for emergencies, such as calling the AAA if my car stalls on a dark road, or my bandmates calling to tell me rehearsal is cancelled when I'm already on my way over. To date none of those things have happened so I have never actually "used" it. At something like 15 cents per minute it's far too expensive to use for mundane telephony. I'm not sure having a cellphone in the glove compartment is the same as "not going without it." But in any case I frequently forget to bring it or forget to charge it so I literally "go without it" for weeks at a time, without even knowing it.

As for the internet, on my increasingly rare trips home sometimes I don't take my computer so I don't log onto SciForums or engage in e-mail banter with my buddies for a week or two. But I use my wife's computer to check e-mail and keep up with anything more important than banter. And at least once a day we find ourselves huddling over the computer together doing research or just having fun. I guess we are an Official Internet Family.

When I'm home I use it every day, generally for several hours, and that's the way I interact with the world. My wife and I only talk on the phone once a week so the rest of our communication is by e-mail and we usually have at least a couple of exchanges every day.

We had a loss of cable service for three days a few weeks ago and that was very uncomfortable. My ancient Mac doesn't have wireless capability, but if my home connectivity was down for much longer than three days I'd grab the Windows box I use for work and take it to a wired hangout and catch up. If it happened more than once a year I'd shop around for a more reliable service. I would not agree to live in a place where I couldn't use the internet for several hours every day.

As a consultant I frequently take telecommuting jobs that require spending my entire workday on the internet. Not to mention, I do take my unpaid volunteer job as Moderator seriously. :)

You are just like Buckley Jr. Took you 500 words to say "3 days." :)