24 hours without the Internet or Email

Several times this year, including 3 trips with no access for 7 or 8 days.

We survived, just. :)
 
Oh about a month ago for me. Went to the gulf coast for a few days and wasn't connected. Didn't really miss it either.
 
Of course during one of our week long blackouts a fraudster ran up $23k worth of charges on our credit card. It was quite a shock when I logged on to check balances :nonono:
 
I live in a place where people are so connection addicted they go to dinner with you and place their cell on the table. God forbid they miss a text.

If they receive a text or a call, they will answer it, because it would be so wrong to just let it go to voicemail. :facepalm:If something comes up in conversation that can be looked up on the internet, they won't wait. They will do it. Right then and there. Seriously.:mad:

Once saw a couple out to dinner in a sushi restaurant, both heads down, doing a his and her checking-the-cell kind of thing simultaneously. :nonono:

I'm sure you might understand why I'm looking forward to leaving here. Lost Angeles is insanity to the tenth power.
 
Options said:
I live in a place where people are so connection addicted they go to dinner with you and place their cell on the table. God forbid they miss a text.

If they receive a text or a call, they will answer it, because it would be so wrong to just let it go to voicemail. :facepalm:If something comes up in conversation that can be looked up on the internet, they won't wait. They will do it. Right then and there. Seriously.:mad:

Once saw a couple out to dinner in a sushi restaurant, both heads down, doing a his and her checking-the-cell kind of thing simultaneously. :nonono:

I'm sure you might understand why I'm looking forward to leaving here. Lost Angeles is insanity to the tenth power.
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It isn't just LA, and it isn't just Sushi restaruants. It's all over the place.
 
I am pretty sure that I have not gone 24 hours during this century... I have been carrying a cellphone/blackberry for work since the late '90s and have had it with me on every vacation.
 
Options said:
Once saw a couple out to dinner in a sushi restaurant, both heads down, doing a his and her checking-the-cell kind of thing simultaneously. :nonono:
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That's pretty common around here. DW and I often wonder if they are texting each other.

Last time we went without electronics for an extended period was hurricane Wilma in '05. Close to three weeks. I lost my hard drive and the backup (separate causes, one in a hundred million odds). DD was getting married. Such memories.

We've had multiple issues with Comcast that resulted in no phone or computer for weeks at a time over the past couple of years. Never resolved by them, we dealt with this by getting the iPad and better cell plans.
 
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Just last week, I was without internet or email for 4 days. I was out of town and there was no internet access where I stayed. When I was back on-line, it was a similar experience I had when coming back from vacation when I w*rked - no emergencies and somehow the world managed to stay afloat without my help!:D
 
I call cell phones the new cigarettes--something to handle, to kill time with, to look cool with (in the eyes of the users), to invest in (Apple vs Philip Morris). Someone should turn the old tobacco barns into cell phone manufacturing centers. Maybe there is even an app "patch" to download to use to wean one from the addiction.
 
Options said:
I live in a place where people are so connection addicted they go to dinner with you and place their cell on the table. God forbid they miss a text.

If they receive a text or a call, they will answer it, because it would be so wrong to just let it go to voicemail. :facepalm:If something comes up in conversation that can be looked up on the internet, they won't wait. They will do it. Right then and there. Seriously.:mad:

Once saw a couple out to dinner in a sushi restaurant, both heads down, doing a his and her checking-the-cell kind of thing simultaneously. :nonono:

I'm sure you might understand why I'm looking forward to leaving here. Lost Angeles is insanity to the tenth power.
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I'm afraid you need to get out more. This is ubiquitous. Moving away from LA is not the answer.
 
I'm on daily for the most part, but when I don't have access it's because I am doing something more worthwhile, and it's not an issue AT ALL. Wouldn't hurt me to spend less time on the internet anyway...
 
Bestwifeever said:
I call cell phones the new cigarettes--something to handle, to kill time with, to look cool with (in the eyes of the users), to invest in (Apple vs Philip Morris). Someone should turn the old tobacco barns into cell phone manufacturing centers. Maybe there is even an app "patch" to download to use to wean one from the addiction.
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No patch yet, but the first inpatient treatment center for internet addiction recently opened.

Internet addiction: New treatment program set to open - CNN.com
 
We live on a boat cruising the Pacific coast of Mexico and we'll go months without internet and when we do get internet in a port it's so slow that it's impossible to watch a video. We haven't seen a video of a cat in years. When we're out on anchor we do get emails via a system using a HAM radio but it's just text, no images so we can keep in touch with family and friends. We also don't have TV although we have a Sirius radio that we listen to music, no news thank you. Of course we both retired 8 years ago in our mid 50's so there's no work issues. It's very relaxing not having the constant noise of the internet and TV and it refocuses your mind on the immediate world around you.

When we do go back to the states we're amazed by all the people heads down watching their phones not taking to each other even in restaurants. Now that's a strange way to live.

Frank
 
Meadbh said:
I'm afraid you need to get out more. This is ubiquitous. Moving away from LA is not the answer.
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No, the problem is I get out too much. Probably need to do more what I"ve already done: let people know they're either hanging out with me or their phone.

And you have no idea how much moving from lost angeles is the answer. Everyone here is on broadcast/performance mode talking about their script, their play, their pilot, etc., etc., ad infinity (and all I wanted to do is read my book in a formerly quiet coffee house). It's the entertainment culture: vapid, pathological, imbalanced, unhealthy.

As I've posted elsewhere, FIRE for me will be much more than a financial/w*rk change, it will be a life change, to include changing locations. And it will be a very, very positive change.
 
Options said:
I live in a place where people are so connection addicted they go to dinner with you and place their cell on the table. God forbid they miss a text.

If they receive a text or a call, they will answer it, because it would be so wrong to just let it go to voicemail. :facepalm:If something comes up in conversation that can be looked up on the internet, they won't wait. They will do it. Right then and there. Seriously.:mad:

Once saw a couple out to dinner in a sushi restaurant, both heads down, doing a his and her checking-the-cell kind of thing simultaneously. :nonono:

I'm sure you might understand why I'm looking forward to leaving here. Lost Angeles is insanity to the tenth power.
Meadbh said:
I'm afraid you need to get out more. This is ubiquitous. Moving away from LA is not the answer.
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Options said:
No, the problem is I get out too much. Probably need to do more what I"ve already done: let people know they're either hanging out with me or their phone.

And you have no idea how much moving from lost angeles is the answer. Everyone here is on broadcast/performance mode talking about their script, their play, their pilot, etc., etc., ad infinity (and all I wanted to do is read my book in a formerly quiet coffee house). It's the entertainment culture: vapid, pathological, imbalanced, unhealthy.

As I've posted elsewhere, FIRE for me will be much more than a financial/w*rk change, it will be a life change, to include changing locations. And it will be a very, very positive change.
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You're right Options, smartphone obsessed, rude, "vapid, pathological, imbalanced, unhealthy" people are exclusively in LA. Everywhere else is idyllic by comparison. Go for it...:facepalm:
 
brewer12345 said:
Fairly often for us, especially on camping or hunting trips. I have however noticed that the coverage has been getting more extensive in some parts of the boonies, a trend I am not exactly thrilled with.
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Quite often for us also since we love to camp in our RV in out of the way places - off the grid, or boondock. The peace and quiet with no distractions from electronics is soothing to the soul. :dance:
 
This summer there was a microburst storm that went through the center of the city and knocked down many trees with the high winds. There were leaves and branches everywhere and some flooding - cost the city more than $1M to clean it up. Our cable went out so no TV or internet for a day and I don't have a smart phone (but the electricity and phone worked). This happened Friday night and the next day neighbors were everywhere cleaning up their yards, parents and kids riding their bicycles through the neighborhood surveying the damage, people driving their cars around gawking at the downed trees and branches, etc. It was rather exciting and the most I have ever seen my neighbors in the 20 years that I have lived here.
 
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