June 21, 2012
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What If the Internet Died
Twitter went offline today and that caused some people to have a crisis.
One person wrote, “Twitters broke, my life has no meaning anymore” Another wrote, “twitter is down and my life is over.” Here is the link: Link
Would it make you sad if the Internet died?
Comments (80)
Au contraire. I’d be fine. I may miss blogging.
Yes.
I do everything online: Working, researching, realxing, trolling (but only you, my special Malaysian friends), bitching, scheming, keeping up with old buds.
this would be catastrophic. how would i know what to think?
OMG! I would suddenly find that i have no life no freinds or family (not sarcasm ) it would just be inconvenient
I sincerely hope that those comments about Twitter were said sarcastically. If not… I fear for our future generations.
Confused and temporarily bored perhaps, but not sad.
The fact that I had no idea Twitter was down today is a good sign to me. I do think I’d go insane though considering that if the internet died I’d only have a 4 year-old, 2 year-old, and 4-month old to talk to all day. =( Not that we don’t have good conversations or anything, you know, I just can’t really talk to them about certain things. Lol.
I literally have no friends outside of the internet. How pathetic am I?! But if you met me in person you’d understand why. It’s sad.
Yes !! Whats gonna happen to alll my 1,000 Facebook friends ?
Xanga’s doing some weird things today, too — is the internet doomed?
I’d be okay. Internet is just for fun, but I might end up missing you and bunch of online close friends.
I’d miss blogging, but I know how to go to the library to find journal articles, books etc to do research. I would have to draw pictures for my son instead of printing them out. My life would be inconvenienced, but I wouldn’t die.
we should try it.
If only there were some kind of low tech alternative to the internet for keeping in touch with people. Like a stick and ink contraption that you could write with and… I don’t know… a biodegradable sheet of some material that would show ink. And then perhaps a service that would take the biodegradable inky sheet from you and deliver it to the person with whom you want to communicate.
@saintvi - Online, a lag of a few seconds is unbearable. That low tech approach has a latency of hundreds of thousands of seconds.
what if you died?
I’d miss blogging, but I would probably find it a blessing for the internet to be dead.
I currently have no cellphone, and then if the Internet was gone? Damn, I’d almost be Amish
My computer is backed up by my shelf full of books. And my dogs don’t like it when I’m on the computer anyway.
Yeah, but as long as we could still sext message, I think I’d get through the first 10 minutes okay.
Except it didnt break today…
What’s a Twitter?
I’d be worried, not so much because of the entertainment and social media, but because of valid reasons, as the internet has millions of uses. For instance, my sister is in China right now, and long distance calls aside, the internet is the only way of communicating with her, which is important because I need to find out when she’s coming back and what time I need to pick her up from the airport. Other people have summer school and need access to information or maybe a school website.
Unless you meant only the social media aspect of the internet dying? I took it in a broader sense.
If the Internet did die as we live right now, something tells me that we would all die along with it.
Oh, NOOOOZ! SOLAR STORMS, AAARGH!! My land line bill would go up a notch, for sure.
@saintvi - A perfect solution, Vi —
no. I know how to contact my close online friends.
if the internet died, we would be free, and would be more present and focused on our physical lives. the here and now. our family and neighbors and in-real-life friends. seems to me that we would be psychologically more healthy.
LOL I’d be heartbroken, that’s for sure.
anxious. seems lost contact with the world!
@MCTCanadian - DON’T TALK LIKE THAT
It may sound like an exaggeration, but it isn’t; my life would be over.
Good one. @zzzzzulavalle -
when my internet was down one time, I played chuzzle deluxe-the preinstalled game on my laptop. that game is addicting! it is like Connect 4, except with furry monster balls like those momeraths from alice in wonderland that squeak when you match the colors
when my internet was back up, I still kept playing the game. I was drugged!!!!
Perish the thought!
Ha! If the internet died there would be lots of businesses go under.Hey,it might not be so bad,then no more porn sites!
@Ellelarien - well yeah,your internet life.
I would miss you, TheoDan!
@Somefishytales - my internet life is my life.
@Ellelarien - Well,you are a cute bot then! LOL
@Somefishytales - haha, oh, you!
I’d be sad but I’d survive and get over it.
nope. I was at a concert and we were walking out and someone bumped into me and my cell phone flew out of my hand and…rolled into the gutter. It was the most liberating 3 wks of my life until I replaced it. Technology is what it is. It can ahndicap you or you can use it to your advantage. but i wouldn’t rely on it.
It would put me out of jobs… and make me bored. And I would go crazy when I wanted to look something up. But otherwise no.
I’d be using my landline a hell of a lot more.
South Park already covered this. Even if the internet does die, we just have to unplug it and plug it back in again, and it’ll be fine.
Dammit, I’d be forced to write my work schedule down ahead of time instead of just checking it every night.
i gave up internet except for homework use for lent. and my eyesight didn’t get worse than it usually does every year
Then how would we find the answer to what YOLO means? Aha
I’d be sort of upset because I keep records of my life on blogs + Twitter and keep tabs of my interests on Facebook. The internet has a record of things pertinent to my life and I’d be lost without it. :/
Heh, I’ll live.
Our internet is a family luxury not a necessity. I grew up happily enough without it and wouldn’t be too bothered if I didn’t have access to it but I’m not sure my kids would be pleased if I suddenly decided to get rid of it as they use it more than me. It’s a great tool of learning, offering information at a click but I’m not a great fan of them spending so much time talking to friends via messenger, as I remind them daily…there’s a whole wide world outside the front door waiting to be explored
Twitter went offline today and cause people to have a crisis, the same would be if Facebook went down.
I will missed the internet if it went down, because this is how I do most of my job searching (I don’t know own a mobile phone/ipad etc, so could not use it to help me find directions to places.
I would miss the internet as well so I can spot the signs of cancer giving me reminders how to do self testicular exams monthly.
(even though I do go to my doctors/gps) I use official website.
Well yeah, if the WHOLE internet died. If it was just Twitter, I wouldn’t care– for example, I never knew that Twitter was down.
I dont have twitter…
I could even live with a party liine again and black and white t.v.
The world would be better.
I would not be sad but at work we would be paralyzed!
I’d lose all of my online friend, that would make me sad. But I don’t freak out if it’s down for a few hours.
yes
I’d read. Which is what I usually do anyways X-D I think I’d be fine.
I’d like to say it wouldn’t affect me, but I’d be an arrogant liar.
We all use the internet. Amazon. Google. Facebook (If nothing else, contact info and pictures!), email (histories of information. I email myself important things to keep “on record”…or emails of important conversations… relationship history, school papers and HOURS of filed research…). It would be startling.
Twitter wouldn’t bother me, but I just don’t use it that much. It’s more the practical, filing-cabinet uses of the internet that would shock me if I suddenly lost.
Don’t get me wrong: I would also appreciate the simplicity of not worrying about social networking… and, if nothing else, the lack of an excuse to lead a genuinely active life offline.
It might also be a severe (and I mean this in a positive manner) reality-check; in the physical world, our thoughts are not the most important thoughts; we are not the center of the galaxy and that’s a wonderful, healthy thing. Literally speaking, not everyone wants or has time to hear every note I suddenly feel like I must share.
(But even as I’m typing this I’m updating my facebook.)
Thanks for posing the question for thought.
I would be sad.. and then be forced to pick up my phone and talk to people I guess
Sure, but my life wouldn’t be over. I’d also very quickly put stock in playboy and laugh my way to the bank
OMG! TEH INTERNETZ DIED, MY LIFE IS POINTLESS!!!!
If I ever catch anyone I know saying that and being serious about it, that’s the last I ever want to hear from them. Fucking ridiculous.
Well, we’d all be fucked, wouldn’t we?
I’d feel rather helpless since I don’t have another other way to be in touch with the news or world
@slmret @saintvi @plantinthewindow @passionflwr86
I love how all the old people who didn’t grow up with the internet talk about how there are appropriate alternative and that the internet makes one less healthy. The internet is the future of communication try going without a phone and a car sure you can do it but is it really better? The internet allows people to communicate in a more direct manner maybe not physically but mentally. The only thing that could be more direct is brain to brain communication. The internet also allows for the removal of the ego since it is anonymous. Discrimination is removed since the physical world is nonexistent. I can go on and on.. Thankfully all you old people will be gone soon and the planet as a whole can progress to allow for a more globalized consciousness.
Yep.
@AustinQPT - What a charming comment! Especially there towards the end. Spoken like a true gent!
Sad? Yes, sad in the way I get sad when a favorite series is canceled. I had a full life pre-internet, and I suspect I could make the transition back to that, although I’d certainly miss some of the conveniences like comparison shopping online and making online payments to bills. Nothing a good cell phone and newspaper couldn’t fix.
I’d no longer be obligated to check work e-mail 24/7. I’d have my weekends back! Score.
I’ll died as well….
That means I would have to get off of my broad white butt and do something that might make me skinny again:)
I think it would be good for me if the internet died.
@forsakenchild - was that supposed to be sarcastic orrrr
I live 300 miles from work. The internet allows me to work from home near family. If it went down, I’d have to move back to Chicago and go into the office every day. No more getting up at the crack of 10 and working in my pajamas.
Personally, I don’t spend enough time on here to care that much. But I would probably have to get a new job, since I sell computers and tablets all day and they can’t really be used if people don’t have internet.
When the internet dies… will someone finally say Hi to my face and not to their phone??
No. It was funny. @zzzzzulavalle -
I work almost exclusively from home so it would be a major inconvenience.
I’d be sad at first but I’d get over it.
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