{"id":5824,"date":"2011-07-20T06:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:00:49","slug":"what-would-you-give-up-for-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/what-would-you-give-up-for-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you give up for the Internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> read an article<\/a> this morning that said a survey<\/a> commissioned by Primus Canada found that almost half (46 per cent) of Canadians would give up their television before giving up their Internet access, and 35 per cent would give up their phone to keep Internet and television access.<\/p>\n

The survey also found that 20 per cent of Canadians would turn down $1 million in cash in exchange for never accessing the Internet again. At first, I scoffed. A million bucks? I love you guys, truly I do, but not that much. Bah. Then I started to think about it — giving up the Internet forever<\/em>. I wouldn’t just be giving up Flickr and Twitter and the blog. I’d be giving up g-mail and google, and (gasp!) Pinterest! The million dollars began to seem less valuable the more I thought about it. I mean, what good does a million bucks do if you have to actually drive to a bricks and mortar bank to deposit it and actually visit a mall to spend it? The humanity!<\/p>\n

I have to ask, what would tempt you to give up the Internet, bloggy peeps? I’d happily give up folding laundry, eating liver and country music for life, in exchange for the ability to solve arguments about actors in bad 1980s movies and to check the weather of places I’ve never visited nor likely ever would.<\/p>\n

What about you? What’s the Internet worth to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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