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If you don't have to have home Internet service and an Internet-connected phone for work... shut off those services. It's fine. There's more stuff to do withou
by shantly 7y ago
If you don't have to have home Internet service and an Internet-connected phone for work... shut off those services.
It's fine. There's more stuff to do without the Internet than a person can reasonably do, anyway, even if you're pretty picky.
- greggman2 7y agoI find that advice hard to accept. I'm older so I spent plenty of time as an adult without the internet (unless you count BBSes). I use the internet to find things to do. Meetups to go to, events on facebook, events and parties friends invite me to, restaurants to go do, etc... I don't know how I would do it without the internet at this point. Maybe it used to be I'd look in the local paper like SF Weekly or LA Weekly but I live in a place that doesn't have those anymore and AFAIK even those are a pale version of what they were in the 80s and 90s
- shantly 7y agoWell if it's helping you socialize, don't take that advice. Everyone's different. I'd ditch it if I could (for work reasons, for me and for my spouse, I cannot) but then texting is the most technological thing I really need to keep in touch these days, and maybe the occasional e-mail check-in or phone call, and entertainment and diversion's laughably abundant even without it so that's not a concern. If I were finding meetups and such on the Internet that'd be different.