If the Internet were cut off, would you be more or less likely to go outside?

[Duer 157099]

I think many more people would venture outside to see what is going and and then be swept up in whatever mass protest was going on.

Doesn't that sort of just make sense?

:shrug:

[xchrom]

1. more. much more. nt

[eShirl]

2. I would venture outside into the analog MMORPG

[Forkboy]

I hear that has awesome graphics!

:)

[Fumesucker]

The graphics are extremely high-res..

But despite the technical wizardry involved they are nonetheless mostly banal and boring when they aren't outright revolting.

[Forkboy]

17. Ah. I'll wait for the patch then.

:)

[Zoeisright]

3. Much more.

It's really a connection to the world.

[Warpy]

4. If I still lived in a city with mass transit and easy walking distances, yes

Unfortunately, I live in the wild west. Even though this is inner city and has sidewalks, it's still spread out with parking lots everywhere and going out isn't that great a deal.

That's the problem with sprawl. While I expect protests to start happening in denser areas, it's just not going to happen here, net or no net.

[cutlassmama]

5. there are always games, DVDs, housework, etc.

[MineralMan]

6. Meatspace? Oh, The Howwow!

Actually, I'd probably get a lot more work done.

[Statistical]

7. Yeah. Kinda stupid (short sighted) for the govt cut off people's access to new and information.

Hence they "manually" seek out news and information and swell the ranks.

[grilled onions]

8. No Change

I am one of those semi shut ins and the internet IS my education since I would not be able to attend meetings,protests etc. Also because of the way tv news is(or isn't) the internet is the only way to find out the real news. This holds true,even more for those of us without cable or a black box and radio holds far too little news these days.

[Dogmudgeon]

13. That's at least two of us

It's probably pretty common.

--d!

[aquart]

9. Is this an internet sabotage survey?

I will watch soap opera.

[Kennah]

10. Might or might not go outside more ...

... but I'd probably get more done at work.

[slackmaster]

11. As Data Center Administrator for a company that does business almost exclusively on the Internet...

...I wouldn't have a lot to do here if the 'Net was shut down.

I'd probably be scouring the beach in La Jolla with my metal detector set on "Jewelry" mode. If you're going to look for stuff that people have dropped, you might as well look where rich people have been.

[WinkyDink]

12. More. I'm a bold sort that way.

[HockeyMom]

No, because I hate Florida weather

Too hot in the summers, and too green (palm trees) and too WARM in winters. I would probably just hibernate like I do now.

[leveymg]

14. Yes. And, leaving my cell at home, the Gov't would lose its ability to monitor my communications.

That's why I think the authorities would be much more selective in the way they would shut down opposition communications and movements in America.

[cali]

15. I'd venture outside and still all I'd see are cows and

barns and wood smoke. The idea of there being a mass protest where I live is amusing.

[Forkboy]

18. You never know what those cows may be plotting.

Ignore them at your peril.

[Fumesucker]

22. Four legs good...

Eh, you know the drill.. ;)

[csziggy]

24. Same here, but horses, deer and coyotes - no cows

Rural living is not all that conducive to mass protests!

[ZombieHorde]

16. Does my PS3 still work? nt

[DJ13]

19. I was thinking the same when I heard Egypt had cut off the internet

I think eliminating people's ability to passively keep abreast of current events inside their homes actually increased the numbers of people actively protesting.

[SidDithers]

20. If the internet were cut off...

I'd probably spend a couple of hours plugging and unplugging things, trying to get it to come back on.

Sid

[Duer 157099]

27. +a billion

That's exactly what I'd do too for the first few hours. I lost my internet last night and it took me hours before I discovered that my router power adapter was not tightly plugged in to the power strip.

LOL.

[woo me with science]

29. Actually, that should be interesting to the government, should they ever want to shut it down.

The most effective way to do it might be with a smokescreen of "service errors" rather than admitting they are doing it.

Just put Verizon in charge, and people won't suspect the government for MONTHS.

[JoePhilly]

21. I'd have to go into the office every day and / or travel every week.

[BrotherLove]

23. What version of "Outside" are they up to now?

[DainBramaged]

25. Too old to play outside.....but I would join in a protest if it was of my politics

[SheilaT]

26. It would depend on where people live, as well

as their age. Us middle-aged folks who live in small cities might not go outside. But young, angry, disaffected young men in major cities would be very inclined to go outside. Keep in mind that things were already quite dicey in Egypt before they cut off Twitter and then the internet.

I understand land lines are still working there. I have a landline as well as a cell phone, so in the same kind of situation I could stay in touch.

[Urban Prairie]

28. Depends on the reason for the internet being cut off

If it happened in the US due to the federal government's involvement, I would have to think that there was a civil war brewing, or something similar, like Martial Law being implemented by the current POTUS.

So I have to believe that losing the internet would likely be the least of our worries, if it got to that point, and probably survival would be first and foremost on our minds.

[HereSince1628]

30. Well, it depends on how I felt about the revolution.

If it scared me. No, I'd be barracaded in the basement.

[Duer 157099]

31. But without an info source, how would you know?

That's sort of my point, that curiosity alone might drive people to go outside, if only to chat up their neighbors to find out what is happening.

"Hey, my net connection and phone are down."

Whenever the lights go out in my neighborhood, that's what people do, they go outside to talk to neighbors.

[HereSince1628]

33. I'm guessing, only guessing mind you, but I think I'd know my town

and I'd know where its sentiments were in the context of regional/national revolution.

If I lived in an economically segregated middle class suburb, just a mile from an ethnic ghetto, and the residents of said ghetto had recently stormed my city's market places (Google "Mayfair Mall, Wauwatosa") then I'd be in the basement and not outside. Bullets would possibly be flying, and a basement is fairly bullet-proof.

[EFerrari]

32. I'd still be outside, just without the intertubes.

:shrug:

[justiceischeap]

34. If the Internet was turned off, I'd be unemployed.

I'd probably be too homeless to enjoy the outdoors.

[cbdo2007]

35. No, I'd stay inside and protect my family.