Do you think people would open their eyes and become more neighborly? Would it free people to actually talk to their friends, go to actual events in person? Or is everyone already entrenched too far?
And yes its ironic im posting this online. However I like to think of how the world would react if we could disable the internet for a few months. Besides the chaos of banking and airlines, I think it would be a net positive on humanity.
Until then, ill go back to being mostly disconnected on weekends. Its great.
That sounds like a nightmare.
When I was in college, there was some Internet, but nobody lived on it like we do now. There were also a variety of clubs at college. I think I might have shown up for one club gathering and noped the fuck out.
The Internet doesn’t keep us in. We built the Internet because we never wanted to leave.
fediverse users tend to be more conscious about their internet usage, but I don’t think this applies to the more popular social media sites that are built upon attention economy