How often do you unplug from the Internet?

Every few months although not lately.

Some days I really don’t want to even touch my computer. It’s hard though. I can live without it, but I need it for job searches and the like. I know what you mean about people having their phones out all the time. Drives me bonkers too, especially at the movie theater. The second a film gets done, all those little screens come to life.

I don’t own a cell phone, I don’t skype, I only browse the net and fluther a few hours a day at most. I live in the mountains on property and much prefer to be kickin’ it around my little micro-farm than plugged in 24/7.

Right now I have been up for hours with a new cat in the house I adopted yesterday. It is just sunrise now and it is a wild and windy morning and I am on my way out to let the geese out of their barn and frisk around in the sunrise with the pets. Nothing better than that! :-D

I don’t even have internet at home. I check stuff when I visit my parents, or used to at work.

Less and less though, outside of when I’m working, that connectedness is mostly to information rather than people so the distraction is controlled. I don’t consciously try to unplug unless being connected is getting in the way of other things I deem more necessary.

As a rule I unplug when I travel save for directions/reservations/weather that kind of thing. I don’t take/make calls, texts, emails unless they’re directly related to my trip and I apply a similar principal to business related things outside of work – both are stances many co-workers find unsettling or downright unacceptable.

Distraction in conversation doesn’t happen too often, rarely is something so urgent that the person in font of me matters less than the person trying to reach me. If others feel differently that’s their prerogative.

Use the internet only at home.

I have a life and when I leave home, the internet stays there waiting for my return.

I only go online at home. I don’t have an internet phone, nor do I really want one just so I can spend more time on the computer. I’m on enough! If I’m at a friend’s house, the only time I’ll want to go online is if they’re taking a shower or are sleeping and I have nothing to do. If I’m out, chances are I’m at least mildly entertained and have no use for being online. I go on when I’m bored or with a purpose. I don’t need to be connected just for the hell of it.

I never plugged in, so I don’t have to plug out.

I only use the internet at home a couple of hours a day. Maybe a bit more when I’m not working. No internet at all at work, and even if it was allowed, there’d be no time to use it. And my phone is one of those old fashioned ones that’s an actual phone, it doesn’t do internet.