i spent a lot of time online as it is per my work. Web Design, so been online comes with the territory. I'm online at work and online at home hehe, I'm trying to be online less. Its not easy heheheh online world is where I live. ^^
Ooo ... i use 5-10 hours a day ... normally about 6-7 hours after i reach home till i hit the beds
Usually I use the net for homework or for assingments for school. Online gaming is fun at times for me, I don't really get to play on the comp/surf the net that much cause I'm so busy...
lol wat's with that "touch" button?
Howie, I'm upgrading with the UI for the Mirai eroge ^^;
OMG, internet changed my life sooo much. I would be a completely different person if i havent gotten internet two years ago. In the region i used to live in internet wasnt a very popular thing -_-;;;, just because the speed was too slow and prices too high. Now i spend about 5 hours a day
Were all the same, internet has a lot of practical use now most people almost need it, I for instance have the habbit of staying 2 - 5 - 8 hours online reading, seeing, playing, etc, so every mourning the first thing I do is go jog, haha mi parents still admire the fact I didn't gave up mi social life for internet ^^
2-5 hours a day.
I don't know what would my life would be without internet. Anime, information, blogs, anime music and free software downloading and of course instant messenging and e-mailing are daily activities. 5 hours per day seem fine to me, when of course I have free time. It may sound a bit sad to the ear, but I don't really know what socializing means. I've tried, but it's difficult to find someone you can fully trust. I tend to express my feelings fully only via interposed screens. I don't truly understand how people can have fun going outside and drink until they are wasted, etc., as it is something foreign to me. This may have much improved over the years, but I am still cold in some way. So to say, internet is an integral part of my current life and living abroad is not always fun. I'm still adapting and learning everyday though. Sorry for being a bit depressive today. I hope to be more cheerful next time. Thanks for reading.
2-5 hours is the max i get! Near 9 or 10 hours working 6 hours sleeping 1 hour gaming 2 hours building gundam kits 1/2 - 1 hour practicing my Instrument 1 hour animation 1 hour taking bath (morning and evening) near 1 hour and 30 minutes trap in the traffic! the remaining time i focus is on going online including so of my lunch time at the office
And yes Danny, ADSL and other high-speed lines + wireless sure have been awesome improvements in terms of internet access. I never want to relive the "56k nightmare" ever again. Internet has its pros and cons, as for everything else, and I see you began soon too in terms of naughty stuff. Page3 girls huh? My favorite is named Michelle Marsh, but shhhhhh... *jamming noises* *lost communication*
I'd just spend my time staring at C++ codes all day long aside from PHP and C# coding. And because of that, I have to spent more than 15 hours online (Aside from designing my robot's circuitry boards) a day researching on robotics coding and ideas that I should implement on my robot.
well after i get home from work max 2-5 hours and when i don't work 5-10 hours XD is not THAT much really hehe
the internet is really a godsend. i spend more time on the internet than on television. i can't live my life with google, wikipedia, youtube, bit-torrent and dannychoo.com i can get informations very quickly through the internet. if i have a question, i can just post it in a forum and people will reply with answers. not forgetting the tons of things i can download. ^^;
Oops. there's a typo mistake in my post below. i meant to say i can't live my life without google, wikipedia, youtube, bit-torrent and dannychoo.com my bad. ^^;
5-10 hours a day. Mostly after a long day of work during the weekdays.
Another great inspirational post, Danny! You're definitely having fun. Likewise for me, even though HTML and PHP is only a hobby, I wouldn't be where I am today, both technically and artistically, without my interest in computers and internet... The only thing I'd add is that "regret" is relative too. Many confuse joy and greed. So if anime and manga are reflections of life, we should look for the fun and joy in the "little" things as well as strive for the "big" things. Here again, "big" is relative too... In other words, even an average wage-earner, navigating his or her ups and downs, can find greater fulfillment in life or art or religion or family than the most successful of executives. I wish your ongoing success! =)
O how lucky we younger generation are, with just a few words and a click do we get to see all the "eyes" we want lol. I remember the old days of 56k, don't ever want to go back lol, but it was the best thing back then. Nice to know a brief history of yourself Danny. I'll check out those websites you recommended to "increase" my knowledge, either that or I go looking for "eyes" ;p.
I don't know how I would live without the internet. Many people say this, but without so much meaning as when I say it. My entire life revolves around the internet. When I'm not web programming or looking around for new developments in useful scripts I'm reaserching stuff on wikipedia or taking part in the expansive blogotubes. :P Seriously though--I spend between 3 to 6 hours a day just surfing around on Wikipedia. It's endlessly fascinating reading about Hadron collisions and other Quantum Theory stuff or about the history of the internet.
...I have but One Question.Life Without the Internet?
I use about 10 hours on average, although I leave the PC on for pretty much the whole day for downloading purposes.
It depends i say. During schooling days cant use.During weekends 3-6 hrs mayb.During holidays i m free 2 use however long i wan.
earlier this year there was a richter 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the southern coast of taiwan which caused major outages of international connectivity due to multiple submarine cable failures. during this period, internet speed in the region was very slow. local online community here made quite a big fuss over it. i think they are insensitive. instead of being concern of the aftermath of the quake, they are more concern of their internet speed. just prove to show how not only the younger generation can't live without the internet, they want fast speed as well.
I'd probably spend over 10 hours a day using the internet, if it weren't for school. Right now, I'm spending no more than 8-10 hours, though sometimes I go overboard and stay up all night so I can watch CLANNAD raws off Nico Nico at 3 in the morning.
avg 4hrs for gaming 2hrs for youtube 3 hrs for surfing lol... and another hr to update a bunch of games...
what i can say is that.. as long as i'm free on weekend.. i would spend at least all of my availible time of more than 15 hours in front of the computer.. data organisation take up most of the time though..
Haha. Page 3. It's ok Danny there are alot of people who can only find naked eyes there. The last paragraph of that post was epic. You're right Danny. We should all be trying to aim to get somewhere before we regret the decision not to. It is the only way to enjoy life to its fullest. By making things happen for yourself and not waiting for them to happen. Hopefully i can become and aero-mechanical engineer and get into the field of Formula One racing. Or even making giant mobilesuits. Real life Strike Gundam here I come. XD
I meant 3rd paragraph from the end of the post. :P
I stay on for max 15 hours/day. I put this limit to me =P.... Well It's a big limit, but rarely i reach it. And i user to do exercises watch anime in computer... so I'm always half-online... wish this count as half time too >D
D_Blade, thanks for depressing me. j/k. I dont think there is anything wrong with your social skills, I think you are just a little hard on yourself. Gordon, I know what you mean. I dont think people realize how lucky they are to live in this day and age. I grew up without the internet, but I dont feel like I missed anything. Hell, I didnt get a cell phone until I was 18, or a tv in my room for that matter! I think its important in life to not lose your connection with the world around you, take Danny for example, he always goes to functions, meets new people, goes on trips. You can experience a lot online, but you should seek knowledge and understanding in the world around you also.
I agree so much, time is short use it to it's fullest. I too think to the past and regret the time that I feel I wasted. With a return to college for a second degree I find my time so limited which is a new source of frustration for me. I can be dangerously obsessive about being productive. I find myself chastising myself for not being productive all the time. Probably my number one weakness, not feeling comfortable with just fooling around. My so called "free time" is very important to me since it's my most productive time. I spend time learning more Nihongo, increasing my computer and Internet knowledge and having a little fun too. It's why visiting your site and others is important to me. I forgot how I'm never satisfied with just doing assigned class work and learning just what a professor requires of me. Anyway, yes I too spend a large amount of time on-line. Usually from around 5 or 6 am to often midnight or 2 am. My work and college studies dictate it. Yes I do take breaks for meals and to just get away from the Mac from time to time. You know how it is, the harder one works the harder one must play. Something else I'm not getting to do lately and paying for it too. ^^; You are so right, life is much better and has changed so much for me too having the Internet. If used correctly, it can make the world a much better place. Younger people are so lucky that they can talk and share with people from all over the world at such early ages.
2.5 on average. if you count the weekends that is. during the week its dl'ing homework, uploading homework. and watching dannychoo his blog f' course. btw. if u spend so much time on the internet, don't you get bored.
Edward, I absolutely agree with u... I always somehow felt time is being wasted by me and even though I'm fully aware of it I just can't resist wasting it away... by "wasting", i mean not using it efficiently and "correctly"... now i'm in med school my sense of reponsibility has been growing b/c i realize that i'm about to achieving my dream by working extremely hard to a degree that out-of-school social life has become so scarce and so valuable... You guys are right about the Internet...and like everything else, it's a double-bladed knife, it can help ALOT, but it could be destructive if not used properly...same goes with time management for sure.
Thanks for this post Danny. I took the advice and started learning html today (going pretty well for now). I'd like to do something more productive than just surfing the net and downloading stuff ^_^.
I gotta admit, the internet is pretty damn useful. When my modem conks out (it does it often) i panic! Its so much more convenient doing a quick google search for reference images or the answer to a question - no matter how complicated. Back in the old days, you had to go to a library. Plus, the convenience and efficiency of online shopping is superb. Ive brought things on the net that i would have NEVER anywhere else. I do find myself getting sucked into it too much though. I regularly participate on 2 forums, facebook, and check about 6 blogs every day. This takes up a lot of my time each day, when i could be doing more productive things like freelance work, personal work, or general self improvement like excercise or learning japanese properly. Socialising on MSN took up tons of my time so i uninstalled it a year or so ago. It seems i have filled that gap with forums and the all-consuming facebook :-/
I spend a lot of time on the net. The jb i do for the video game company I work for has servers that we log in to overthe net.
I voted 10 to 15 hours, but maybe I spend more than that. I just bought a very expensive laptop just so that I can use it on trips. I travel regularly every couple of weeks to attend a game development course. Most of the news I read from my RSS reader, usually 200+ articles a day (though I get lots of repeated stuff). After I started the game development course, I came back in touch with the gaming industry and stuff... so I'm playing a lot lately. When I was a kid, I played tons of games several hours a day. But I switched it to movies and other hobbies until I started my course. But anyways, like Danny said, I don't know how much I would know, or what I would be today without the Internet. I remember first acessing it through a local BBS, IRC only, with a US Robotics 9600 baud modem, on Win3.11. Just for starters, I probably wouldn't know anime too much. I wouldn't have gotten into japanese culture even though I'm japanese decendant. I wouldn't have gotten into reading books. Wouldn't have graduated in Computer Science. Wouldn't know english language the way I know today. And that's only for starters...
i'm always online and spend more than 15 hours online ^__^ for me, internet is my life and it has changed my life so much and i dependent to it...and addicted to it there was one time when the internet went down and i had some withdrawal syndromes lolz XDDD
Alaways connected...24/24 h per day...
Usually, I use inernet for chat, post some mesages(like this), and buy some stuff, or to sell it, but in general, no more that a hour or two... Well, maybe the time of discharge also count...
I agree with you that internet is a great source of knowledge. I remember when i was a kid i had plenty of questions in a very wide range of topics. But my parents didnt answer many of them (i dont blame they just behaved like any other normal parent), and as a little kid i didnt know where to find information. Of course i read books, but my oppurtunities were still limited. Plus my native language is hungarian. Of course i dont have problem with it, but i had to admit that many information can only be found in english. But in english everything can be found. And although i understand common english it would likely happen that i dont understand difficult texts, which are about some deep scientific topic (i refer those which would be hard to understand in hungarian). And if i had had native understanding in english as a little kid, that would have been really great.
I actually love to read comments and information on various things on the internet. Sure, I download the eyecandy items too, but I also love reading about other's opinions on said things or anything. I really loved an article on the PS2 game ICO, which went on for over 1000 words. So, I like reading essays on things that really interest me, as well as reading what people thought of certain figures and such. I like forums for this too, though sometimes they don't really have any mature comments so I have to go elsewhere... Anyway, I spend most of the time actually learning, though a lot of my learning comes from my own search through help files on the PC or just finding out through trial and error. Most of what I know is the latter - I just seem to know how to work things through naturally without instruction books or such. A talent I guess, though sometimes I seek the help file to just speed up the process...
When I don't have school I'm easily more than 15 hours online. I kinda developped a pattern in what I do online. First I check my mail, then read the latest car news, then pay a visit to AnimePaper.net, then Figure.FM, then Danny Choo's blog and many more stuff (deviantART, Demonoid, Google, etc.). So yeah, internet is an important part of my life. Even though I got internet in my house only 2 years ago, I can't live without it anymore. Without internet I wouldn't had any figures. ^^
I spend almost the entire day online...from playing games to reading about technology and what's new to anime and...well, just about everything. Ever since I discovered the net about 7 years ago I couldn't take my hands off it since then. I've learned more things online than reading through books or in the classroom. ^^ So yah, I don't think life will be the same without the internet.
i dislike this poll im trying to get away from the computer more because im on all the time! grrrr...
more likely in the weekends i stay home playing comp and usually think of new ideas for making MAD videos or drawing mechas, making mechas like small enemy mecha units made out of paper , checking roosterteath for any new updates, playing armored core 4, making armored core plastic models, searching for cool mecha pictures in either photobucket or etc., play stepmania[come to think of it i think i losdt my ability to play it ever since i bought xbox360 and armored core 4. In vacations i play like oh my god XD non stop gaming and nonstop online till i get bored or get sleepy. XD
im not sure how to answer this poll... on the weekends im on 15+ hours but on the week days I'm only on for about 5-10 hours
hmm, i use about 10 hrs a day.
I'd say from the moment I am awake to the moment I sleep lol. If I am anywhere with a net port I am either on my mac (teaching) or at home chatting, checking emails, marking exam papers, (playing WoW ><'), hmm I do keep 1 day a week near - internet free and go out with real life friends, drinking, playing board games, do some sport though.
im normally on when ever im bored/ not doing anything, also i heard the internet will blow up in 2012 but in some country there making a new web. oh danny doesnt a server stay connected to the internet 24/7 ? if so wouldnt that mean you technicly spend 24 hours 7 days a week online ? :)
