life without tv or the internet?

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could you do it?

i need the net, can't imagine how i would/did deal w/o it…

i would love to ditch tv…i know that i'm addicted…love comedies, documentaries, the news etc…but at times i think everything about my life would be much improved without it.

thoughts?
 
i can´t live w/o internet, but i do live w/o cell phone... only use it to wake up early...TV seldom use it...
 
I only watch TV if together with my family at home. On business trips or alone at home I don`t even think about switching the TV on and when I was living as a single I had no TV for most of the time.
 
As an expat and just plain working person, I couldn't see myself living without the internet without being a total bother to other people.

As for television, I haven't had a TV for about 9 years until someone came along a couple months ago and gave me one for free to go with my free cable television, but it just sits there.

As with Monochrom, I don't use my cell phone except as an alarm clock.
 
Tired already? :)

Prior to 1991 in my mother country we had four tv channels, full of propaganda and no Beatles on it.
And Internet wasn't so easy to get at home ten years later.
Now in my mother country it is common to have no TV. Because it is full of hate and propaganda even more then in Soviet times.
All independent broadcasters I was involved with are gone now...
And you have to show you passport to be able to connect to public Internet, recently.

Kinda enjoying here, you know...
TVO has great series about Canadian photogs, BTW.
Fred Herzog, Yousuf Karsh...
 
Everyone is so reliant these days - if the Internet falls over at work people just mill about; if the power is down for more than a hour people go home.
Even the phones are IP based these days - POTS is doomed.

Now, putting on my harbinger of doom hat, imaging what chaos would result if a Carrington Level Event occurred ; such a solar flare could knock out the power over half a continent for days.

Just keep some emergency supplies at home as well as color film to record the out of this world Auroras.
 
Never watch TV anyway, I watch a lot of DVDs, Netflix etc. but no actual scheduled television.

Internet, couldn't live without it, either personally or professionally.
 
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Prior to 1991 in my mother country we had four tv channels, full of propaganda and no Beatles on it.
And Internet wasn't so easy to get at home ten years later.
Now in my mother country it is common to have no TV. Because it is full of hate and propaganda even more then in Soviet times.
All independent broadcasters I was involved with are gone now...
And you have to show you passport to be able to connect to public Internet, recently.
Click to expand...

Unfortunately the internet is doing a very good job of killing Short Wave radio - the one medium that crosses borders and political firewalls.
 
I haven't owned a TV for about 10 years and don't miss it in the slightest. Its quite an easy achievement though, considering that most programs on Japanese TV are so incredibly bad.

As for the internet, I couldn't go without that as its an essential tool for both work and pleasure.
 
We haven't had a TV for 9 months now and don't miss it at all. Internet, I don't have it at home and just use it at work.
 
Sure but not at home. My Montana and sailing time is almost completely off grid.
Usual stay...3 weeks> longest to date just under 4 months.
These are camping and otherwise quite rustic trips.
The exhaustion on most days is enough to quash any further need for entertainment or outreach but I do call my mom every few days :)

At home in Seattle I have the internet everywhere and use my Mobile mostly to get online (you can tell by the typos :p ).
No TV except...... I'll watch Ball Games out in pubs from time to time. It's enough to remind one of the comercial landslide!
I know Adverts during football are worse than other times of the day but still, all really suck (I hate the big Pharma adds the most... "warning this drug may kill you but ask your doctor if you need it"...? :p)
Cheers
 
I haven't had a TV since about 2006. The internet is great, but honestly I could do without it if I didn't have to deal with it nearly constantly as part of living in a "connected" world.
 
It would have its attractions.

Entertainment, enjoyment and information, and even reading:

I recently had a retreat from RFF and surfing the web generally. I even opened up War and Peace and read a couple of hundred pages over several nights. War maybe, and peace definitely. I am reading a marvellous book called Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein, rejoicing in old age and simply sitting, or talking and not being in a rush anywhere, the whole examination looking to the question of how to live one's life.

Internet convenience with transactions:

I just payed a whole lot of bills online in a very short time. Without that, I would have gone to the Post Office this morning and talked with the nice man there and paid the bills by cheque and had not only a more certain receipt date, but also a later date for my money to be taken from my account, maybe.

Email, accursed email:

I have an email inbox with over 12,000 unopened emails. I try to run the unopened fraction at 33% or more. I won't read them so why open them? I also don't file them. No point. Sometimes I delete a few. Every now and then I just deposit the whole inbox in a new folder called something like Archive #456 and probably never revisit it. Anything I need can be found on my many Macs with Spotlight, making filing pointless. I don't want my life and every day of it directed by someone else. How about those meeting proposals with multiple reply-all responses and all the out of office responses to that. Let them all go by and most will culminate in a message that the meeting proposed is now cancelled as not enough members etc etc.

Monday, progress day (still in the fight against email):

Mondays I do my own work and don't respond to emails. (I also don't have a secretary on Mondays so can't be reached by phone either.) When I get near retirement, and maybe serially before then, I will keep retiring email addresses and opening new ones to a smaller and smaller network, eventually, hopefully, abandoning email altogether.

We live in a great age no doubt, but it is important to learn or remember how to live.
 
No TV for me for about 5 years. Don't miss it, hate advertisements and the junk that gets played. Cinemas for film, and internet I can't live without.
 
I don't care about scheduled TV. I'm in the UK and as far as I'm concerned things took a turn for the worse as soon as we moved beyond just 4 broadcast channels.

24 hour news is the worst symptom for me. It's on the TV in the work cafeteria and over the course of an hour it's just the same light weight, opinion loaded drivel reported as soon as possible and then repeated ad nauseum.

There's no way I would ever pay for sky or cable.

I do however use youtube a great deal; I think some of the vlog shows run by the public are terrific. You often get and hour of very detailed, well produced information on a topic so niche that main stream media would never touch it.

We also have Netflix (which has mysteriously acquired the US catalog, ahem), but mainly because my wife and son like it. That and t has all of Star Trek on it :)
 
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