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Participants in the human experiment were deprived of the web for 14 days, and found themselves quickly succumbing to "withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration and disconnectedness". The reason for the rapid collapse of their universe is - say the researchers - because "internet users feel confident, secure and empowered.

"I haven't talked to people I usually talk to and have been tempted to go on instant-messenger because I feel out of the loop," sobbed study participant Kristin S. Penny C was likewise suffering: "I'm starting to miss emailing my friends - I feel out of the loop," she said unloopedly. Worse still was this sobering proof of how a temporary lack of an internet connection could reduce one's life to ruins in days: "We couldn't plan a weekend getaway," confirmed Kim V, presumably from the house in which she had been imprisoned since the web embargo.

Linky.

Linkity.

Link.

Anyone want to try it out?

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It would wreck my travel style, but I'd likely just write more regular letters than I do now for correspondence. I was a late comer to the net, however.

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Same thing with mobile phones.

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Anyone want to try it out?

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Anyone want to try it out?

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Just don't pay your power bill and see how long you can live with out anything utilies.

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Anyone want to try it out?

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Im not falling for this one again.

This is all just a ploy to stop me from posting!


I SEE THROUGH YOUR TRANSPARENT...um.....TRANSPARENCIES!!!

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Unless you're heavily involved in important research or make your living with an online business (porn), the internet isn't good for much more than compensating for some lack of real life social interaction and looking at porn. Paint Chips wrote a good essay somewhere (I don't remember where) on how "the internet is shit."

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oh and the whole searching for information, reading news, shopping, entertainment, part of the internet doesn't excist

way to go plum

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It just replaces other equally viable alternatives for all that.

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those so called 'equally viable alternatives' that youre talking about are not located right in front of me and readily accessable when ever i feel like it

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See ya in two weeks.

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How about other modern conveniences? Let's try giving up the phone for a couple weeks. Or the car. Or the refrigerator. Feel that twitchy gnawing sickness in the pit of your stomach? It is the demon of addiction! Throw off the evils of contemporary need people! Be free!

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I'll give up my car for a week if you give up on doing without me for a weekend

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I'm a little more real. I like the conveniences. I like the toys. I like the internerd. I like to "waste" time.

We all leisure in a different suit.

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This is about Asylumnation,HUH? YEA! You want us all to JUST STOP FUCKING POSTING! Yea,RIGHT! You got to be fucking shitting me. And I NEED those dictionary links so I can learn.
And just how many FEET MAGAZINES do you see in the stores,huh?
HUH?
I can't live without my internet. I just.......can't.

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. . . I like the conveniences. I like the toys. I like the internerd. I like to "waste" time. . . .

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Eh, no big deal, other than not having a handy translator to look up the odd unfamiliar foreign phrase or wikipedia or worst yet, weather.com, I actually had to listen to the radio to find out what to wear to work.

I sure got a lot of reading done though, and I even did some writing.

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yes, but I was lost without you

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Lupin mentioned that the internet seemed to have more withdrawals from me than I did from it.

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got the voicemail at yer house. dammit, I thought it was yer cell I was callin.

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I'll pm my number to you.

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