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At 12/19/08 01:26 PM, EclecticEnnui wrote: Given that we of Western culture have all become so accustomed to and dependent on the internet, I am proposing a day where you will obstain from using it!

Only because we're dependent on it? That's like saying that we're dependent on oxygen, NOBODY BREATH FOR A DAY!

IMO, the internet has done more good than harm. It has brought us together in a way nothing else can. A way where people of different backgrounds from completely different sides of the world can meet together to discuss common interests. A way where items unavailable in your country can be purchased easily. A way where great battles can be won. Where we, the public, can unite, to do justice to the corruption caused. A way to survive.

I say, on January 6th, we use the internet more than ever!

<3 internet

At 12/19/08 01:28 PM, DgsGaming wrote: I'm sorry. I'm too much of an internet whore to not go on for an entire day. I'd miss you all too much.

Same here dude.
And besides if we son't go on the internet then we can't get our ten points, here in good ol' newgrounds!

The only good thing that that post cointains is the image at the bottom.

I like it how people forget that the internet isn't a drug, and that no one is forcing anyone to stay on that computer for hours on end,(Unless your job requires you to be on one for long periods of time). People have no one to blame but themselves for being so vulnerable to any sort of addiction. I don't really agree that the internet is taking over peoples lives or that it's taken over society. And knowing people they'll just waste there time with another time consuming hobby like Video Games or just sleeping.

At 12/19/08 01:58 PM, Advent-Sinner wrote: Terrible idea, especially with the amount of people that use it as their only outlet for socialization, therefore making the other things they listed completely void, because they have nobody else.

People are far too dependent on the internet for this to have any impact at all, and will only lead to having the people that already have friends to have a "funny story" to tell when it's all over. Nothing will have changed, and nobody will become less dependent. They'll all flock back to their precious Facebook to tell everyone how it went, and the addiction will restart from where it was the day before.

Again, the goal isn't to stop people from using the Internet, or make them less dependent on it. It's just for one day. It's to prove that you do have willpower over using it. I see your point, though. However, this cause is like going without food or electricity, for a day. It's to live the life of a different person, sort of. Not using the Internet isn't as daring as those two things, but it's still something.

Btw, how many people in the world use it as their only outlet for socialization? Maybe that's to prove that they can use a change, and interact with people in the real world... or not. Again, it's only a day.

:Don't use the internet January 6th.
No.

i will get withdrawl syndroms

I won't have any access to the internet for the next week, anyway, because I'm on vacation.

Otherwise, I couldn't do it - I'll admit, at home I'm dependent on the internet.

At 12/19/08 02:10 PM, fish1892 wrote: Only because we're dependent on it? That's like saying that we're dependent on oxygen, NOBODY BREATH FOR A DAY!

But if we go without the Internet for a day, we're not gonna die, immediately.

A way where great battles can be won. Where we, the public, can unite, to do justice to the corruption caused. A way to survive.

lol.

I agree with your picture, no IE, ever. But seriously, fuck the idea. I'm using the Internet, regardless of some random half-assed facebook idea.

I'm honestly suprised no one has insulted Facebook yet D:

I can go without the internet for a day anyway, it's easy.

At 12/19/08 01:30 PM, STEM wrote: I don't disagree with where the internet is taking society, thus I will not be participating.

While I support the notion of the informative concept that is the internet, I disagree with the level of immobilization that the current technologies force upon users.

I vie for this.

OK, here's the plan, we each pick a popular website, and subject it to bandwidth rape, making that day the internet's most busy day ever. Plan much?

At 12/19/08 02:42 PM, EgoistXIV wrote: I agree with your picture, no IE, ever. But seriously, fuck the idea. I'm using the Internet, regardless of some random half-assed facebook idea.

How is it random and half-assed? What was the host of the event missing?

At 12/19/08 02:46 PM, Rohedin wrote: OK, here's the plan, we each pick a popular website, and subject it to bandwidth rape, making that day the internet's most busy day ever. Plan much?

Hardy har har.

At 12/19/08 01:27 PM, TheZach wrote: Ok, I wont use internet explorer on that day.

or any other day

Yep, sounds like a plan to me.

At 12/19/08 02:10 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote: Pointless.

My mind is too wired to stay offline for a day.

The internet changes people, its great.

Yes, lets listen to Facebook Joe and his wild and extreme propositions.
A just cause, is his.

At 12/19/08 02:46 PM, Rohedin wrote: OK, here's the plan, we each pick a popular website, and subject it to bandwidth rape, making that day the internet's most busy day ever. Plan much?

One person to subject a popular site to bandwidth rape, that would be pretty hard for one person to do, why not everyone do the same site?

At 12/19/08 01:26 PM, EclecticEnnui wrote: blahblahblahfiller

obstain from using it!

nothinginterestingblahblahmorecrap

I will not obstain from using it, because frankly, I have no idea what it means. I would guess that it was a typo and they meant abstain, but I'm not a presumptuous cock, so I'll waste my time writing this.

This is only going to make people more upset, not like they're going to leave their houses and go outside to meet people.

But that's, like, the day before I go back to school. I need to get out every last bit of epicness and hilarity I can from this machine.

Does this include gaming online or what?

At 12/19/08 01:40 PM, MasterOfDaWay666 wrote: Okay, I won't use Internet Explorer on that day.

I use Firefox anyway, so whatever.

He said the Internet not IE, fuckin' read... Yean I'll do this if I have someone to hang out that day, but if not you can count me out. Yeah, a big part of my social life is on the computer, so what? I like to think that everyone could get off of the internet for one day and go see the world though. =]

At 12/19/08 04:23 PM, TacoFreak wrote: Does this include gaming online or what?

Well, if you obviously have to use the Internet for it, then yes.

Sorry, but to me, depositing my points and B/Ping here on NG is a far bigger priority than any crazy ideal of real-life interaction. Plus, fuck Facebook, social networking BS and all that, don't see why the NG admins seem to want to emulate shit sites like that.

Fuck that.

At 12/19/08 01:27 PM, TheZach wrote: Ok, I wont use internet explorer on that day.

Me either. Zach is right.

Lets give up eating, sleeping, pooping and breathing. It sounds really unenjoyable, but we'll get to prove how much we rely on it!!!

Is this trying to stop the happening of another Y2K? Because this is so retarded.

OR.

We could use the internet and still be active in our social community.

Eh? Eh?

Besides, the internet is used for more than games and porn, you know. Not all of us become robots when we use it.

And to your proposal of using phone books and such... the internet is just a technological innovation to all of that stuff. It's made finding information that much easier, and is embraced because of it. I do appreciate your good intentions, though.