I NEED my Internet

This article says it all for me.....

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Study: Life without the Net is unbearable

CBS MarketWatch

NewsTeam CBS [MarketWatch] POSTED: 09.22.04 @08:51

WASHINGTON -- Researchers investigating how people would react to not having access to the Internet had a tough time getting started. "It was incredibly difficult to recruit participants as people weren't willing to be without the Internet for two weeks," explained Wenda Harris Millard, chief sales officer of Yahoo, and a sponsor of the study.



All participants found living without the Net more difficult than expected, and in some cases impossible, the researchers reported. Nearly half of those in one of the surveys said they couldn't go without the Internet for more than two weeks. Sending e-mail, looking up phone numbers, getting directions for a trip, and checking sports scores online, have become a part of daily life.



Conifer Research worked with several dozen people who kept a diary of their activities. Regardless of age, income or ethnicity, all said they had withdrawal symptoms and a sense of loss, frustration and "discontentedness."



"The study is indicative of how the Internet has irrevocably changing the daily lives of consumers," Yahoo's Millard said

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And to this I add......I know I could not do without my daily "fix".



Oh....one last thing. I will be sending out a seperate email, but I am changing ISPs in a few days. Yes...Roadrunner is going the way of the dinasour for me and I will be changing over to my phone companie's ISP in a few days. (TDS Metrocom). I will forword my new email once everything with the DSL installation is complete.



Good night and sleep well.