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Imagine what you'd be doing if there were no reddit (or any other social network for that matter)? You'd be out there trying to find real friends at meetups, c

• r3bl 7y ago
  This doesn't make sense when you use the term "for a day". One day isn't long enough to change anyone's habits. But it's not like it would make more sense if the term was longer. The whole reason the Internet was created was to be the network that could survive a nuclear war. It'll always be there. People communicated via the Internet way before reddit and others, and would continue doing so if they were to disappear. "Imagine living without the Internet" is a useless imagination. It's a thing of the past with no way of reappearing. If your ISP were to go down, I assume you'd just switch to mobile data. Assuming you're using two different companies, it would take quite a catastrophe for both of them to be down at the same time, at which point your survival instinct would kick in, not a desire to make meaningful relationships offline.
• jowsie 7y ago
  These kinds of people and scenarios existed long before reddit and 'social media' in the modern sense. They were just on Usenet/IRC/web forums, heh.
• nasalgoat 7y ago
  I used to hang out on BBSes before the internet. Introverts weren't created by the Internet, they were set free by it.