What is the longest you’ve been offline?
I don't know for sure, but my guess is about 3 days when I was visiting family in another state. I was too busy doing other things to bother or care.
shareI don't know for sure, but my guess is about 3 days when I was visiting family in another state. I was too busy doing other things to bother or care.
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If you're going that route...about 47 years. 😉
shareSeven days during summer vacation. I don't have a smart phone and I don't take the laptop.
shareI think it was well over a week when I was evacuated, before we had internet access again.
Over the past few months my connection has been horrible, going out frequently. A few times it was for over a day.
I'd much rather they'd have been situations like yours, where it was voluntary, and being too busy with other things I was enjoying to notice or miss it.
I should try taking a day off, voluntarily. Just to see what it feels like. Remember back when there was no internet and we were unplugged all the time?
That was a long time ago, but I do remember being always unplugged. Nowadays, it's almost impossible to be completely unplugged. So many businesses almost require you to be online.
shareIf we're not counting the years prior to being connected then I would say 10 days when I went to Alaska. I took pictures but I used a camera..
I think it's kind of a tragedy that some people now can experience nothing without looking down at their phone all the time and miss what's really going on around them. They lose out on so much.
It gets harder, though, to be totally disconnected. I do some work online and pay all my bills online so even if one is not a victim of social media and constant texting it's still hard to completely unplug for long..
in the past 10 years, probably no more than 8 hours, & that was when i took a day trip to hit an out of town bike path.
i definitely think it would be good to step away from the online world, at least take weekends off, or take a week-long sabbatical every now & then, but at this point i've wrapped so much of my leisure life around the online world that taking such a step would mean dramatically rethinking almost all my non-working hours.
but at the very least, i ought to start leaving my phone at home. i almost obsessively browse twitter throughout the day. i go to the library every day & try to read for at least an hour, but i find i'm flipping on my phone every 10 minutes and opening my twitter app. it's a compulsive illness, and something i really need to work on improving.
A couple weeks or so. My family has a house on the countryside and it had no connection at the time. Social media and forums wasn't really a thing yet at the time so i didn't feel i missed out on too much though.
shareI was on a cruise for 8 days, and we had to turn our cell phones' wi-fi off, except for dad's, to save on the bill. (We went to Mexico, so it was important that we use our cells as little as possible outside the country). We were going to be at sea at least 3 days of the trip, so there would be no wi-fi signal out there. We also were doing activities that did not require internet access, so it wasn't entirely torture ;).
I'd say, swimming with dolphins, exploring seaside Mexican towns, shopping for souvenirs (both on land and on the ship), riding on a tour bus, exploring a gigantic ship, dining in restaurants, playing old computer games on one's laptop, reading books, and watching movies/tv shows with family are nice distractions :).
Six or seven days during a trip to Yosemite. Didn't really miss it.
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