I’d say I’m probably around 20-30%. If the internet were to disappear tomorrow, the only thing it’d affect is my work which I’m not really concerned about. The only thing I’d probably miss is watching random stuff on YouTube.

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 would say I’m 75% addicted. Like without it, if it shuts off for prolonged periods, what am I down to? I’m down to just books and whatever I acquired to make available offline like downloaded games and I’ve got quite a media collection going to delve into.

What I’ll miss the most of it is being in contact with those I’ve established a connection with such as online friends. The longer I go without speaking to them, the more things will feel hollow.

90. I stay in contact with friends, even IRL ones, through the internet.

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.

About 40%, but it’s been more in the past. I was about 16 before we got the internet so I know what it’s like to live without it and I actually spent a lot of that time being bored, rather than reading books and otherwise expanding my mind as people would like to have you believe. I use the internet to support my other hobbies now. There’s things I would never have even known about without the internet and it’s great for learning about things. I like making my own beer and working on my car, etc. I wouldn’t ever have started making beer had I not read about it and working on cars is a lot harder without YouTube.

When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.

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

My addiction is basically whenever I have nothing else to do, like working on vehicles or moving furniture, or sleeping, I browse the internet.

So basically about 42%

Probably 90%. Whenever my internet or power goes out, I have literally nothing to do at home. Maybe I should get a board game.

Let’s say 50%. If I can keep using my computer to code and do electronics projects. Maybe without internet I’d get to read some of the novels I’d always wanted to read. And I’d need to subscribe to some magazines to keep up. And find a way to listen to music, audiobooks and podcasts. I’m certainly not going back to watching regular TV if I’m bored.

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

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.

I’m getting less addicted to the internet the more time goes on, and I remember when using the web involved a copy of lynx browser running on a BBS hosted by my local jerky company.

As long as I still have the content of my NAS, and a way to get the treats my cats like (but I can’t find locally), I’d probably be OK. I’d have to leave me house more though… I don’t love the idea of that.

I’m already at the point where I wish I didn’t have to have a smart phone.

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.