Fun Stuff > CHATTER
You Have One Hour To Internet a Week
jwhouk:
E-mail. Get bills paid ASAP. Sneak a look at a comic or two. Might not be able to fit it into an hour, though.
LTK:
What I normally do, except with a much stricter content filter and with my browsing speed turned up to eleven. And then type some hurried e-mails.
Barmymoo:
Definitely emails, because during term my entire life is organised through email (including almost all of my work being sent electronically). But of course I wouldn't be able to do my degree anyway, because I have to read cases on the internet.
If I were able to just do what I want to do, I guess I'd have to skim down my blog reading list to a managable number and spend my hour a week reading and commenting on the blogs I follow, and posting on my own.
Incidentally, I have just set up Leechblock to stop my access to the internet after a certain number of hours. I'm dithering over how many hours - I can quite easily spend the entire day on the internet perfectly legitimately, if I'm reading cases etc, but I don't want to be able to spend the whole day wasting time. Hmm.
Bachi-Atari:
Set torrents to light speed, and check my tumblr & webcomics. No need to go to social networks/emails, if they want me, they know where to find me, or call.
Papersatan:
Does everyone only have one hour, or am I being grounded or something? This makes a difference, because expectations of electronic communication would change if everyone knew that everyone else only had one hour a week.
If everyone had only one hour, I would download my emails, read them, compose a reply and then upload and send the next time. But if everyone were doing this then there would be no expectation of an e-mail being read or replied to quickly. It really would be like the mail, but electronic. Other than email, I think that a one hour limit would revert the internet to its infant state. That is, I would not use it for social networking, or entertainment at all. I would, through out the week, compile a prioritized list of things I want to find, and the queries which I wanted to use to find them. Then during my hour I would make them, downloading the relevant results to read offline. For example: I need recipes for apple pies, I am curious about mathematical hill climbing, I want to know the lyrics to that song I keep hearing and I would like the headlines from an international newspaper.
I think it is actually an interesting question, how would the structure of the internet change if we were limited in our access. The internet is an economy of attention. Money is made through page views, and clicks, and the value of that attention would shift drastically if we, as users, couldn't afford to get distracted.
On the other hand, if it were just me with the limit, I would just move somewhere pretty with no access at all.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version