A Week with No Internet

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Topic #37: Could you live without the Internet for a week? For a month?

My answer to this question is highly dependent on how other people are affected by this Internet out­age.

If I was the only one that lost the Internet for a week or a month, I would have an extremely difficult time living a normal life because of how disconnected I would be from everybody else. My main form of communication and socialization is over the internet – the time a lot of people spend meeting up with people in real life is spent on the Internet for me. Even when I do actually meet up with people in real life, I usually bring some form of technology connected to the Internet with me, and once in a while I bring my camera so I can make videos to put on the Internet of the meet-up.

Life would be difficult not only for my social life, but for my education and work as well. A lot of information about my education is on the internet, such as documents that I have to read and emails about course updates, and it is important that I have access to those if I wish to succeed in my classes. As for my work, being the Web Director at the Badger Herald, almost 99% of my work is on the Internet. If I didn’t have access to the Internet, I would essentially not be able to do most of my job.

However, if the Internet disappeared for a week or a month for everyone in the world, I think that it would be much more manageable, and I would not be as strongly affected as if I was the only one without Internet. The things that I do on the Internet would come to a halt for everyone else as well, and the Internet would become a desolate place. There would be nobody to interact with, and nobody would be visiting my website, so I wouldn’t have to worry about doing anything on the Internet. People would probably use their phones a lot more because email is unavailable, and even though I dislike talking on my phone, I still have a phone number that people can reach me at, so I wouldn’t be missing that many important messages. As for mass announcements during school or work, people could relay that information when we see each other in person.

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 15

Number of times I did my own laundry: 1

 

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