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"QOTD (Weekend Special) - The Internet"

As Machie's QOTD appeared popular, my QoTD (well weekend, as it's a Saturday night...) will be:

Do you think we are becoming too dependant on the Internet?

I may be one of many that have an Internet addiction. I even changed my mobile contract to be able to access e-mails and check my facebook pages.

If I ever need to transfer money, it is now done online and I can barely remember the last time I used a tangeable dictionary to find a meaning of a word. Wikipedia and GoogleBooks are my new bookshelf :/

I get infuriated by the time snailmail takes to arrive - it's only got 200 miles to go and my e-mail to the other side of the world gets there 5 days before my letter makes that short distance.

So what are your opinions on the Internet. Could you last a day/week/month/year without it or could you even give it up for life if needs be?

Personally i think the Internet is something sinister, but depending on how well this thread pans out will determine whether or not I explain why it is sinister.

She's nuts. I spend about 2 hours a day online (unless I'm doing my website, where it is a lot longer). I check my phone regularly though for e-mail (not sure if that counts).

Over the weekend I barely was online at all. Don't think Facebook missed me though ;)

But she is crazy - I'd spend as much time as I could with my family (i.e. partner and kids) if I had them.

On another note, whilst on the sun website I came across this...

Machie wrote:
> I
> spend more time online than I do with my daughter
>
> Thoughts anyone?

How can someone spend that much time browsing the internet daily? Surely you would run out of things to look at after a while...

I spend more time online than I do with my daughter

Thoughts anyone?

How about a QOTD about those American kidnappers in Haiti?

Sounds like bliss. Although can see why the 'net has the appeal there :p

Anybody going to set up a new QOTD thread? We need debates!

hm. I don't think I've ever had an 'exotic cocktail' in Spain! Tends to be cold bottles of Estrella Damm, which is good enough for me.

But without a car there are no beaches, just me, the wife and kids and a small house in a village.

pb wrote:
> I always take my laptop to Spain and have it connected to the
> internet by the end of the first day there.
>
> Admittedly there's not a lot else to do some days there.

Apart from bask in the nice warm weather and sip exotic cocktails, take in the beautiful Spanish sights and absorb the culture.

For everything else there's the Internet (or MasterCard)

I always take my laptop to Spain and have it connected to the internet by the end of the first day there.

Admittedly there's not a lot else to do some days there.

Ordering takeaways with numbers always reminds me of Skellig :P

HM wrote:
> Machie wrote:
> Oh you two. =) That's exactly my point. I don't need to watch
> the
> television anymore, I can access everything on the internet now.
>
> The only thing the net is missing now is a coffee machine (I was
> going to say a way of obtaining food, but you can even order
> takeaways online now!)

OK HM. I'll have two No46 and two No16.....:-)