Quasi la metà dei giovani preferirebbe un mondo senza Internet, lo studio del Regno Unito è
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/20/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds
di topotaul
Quasi la metà dei giovani preferirebbe un mondo senza Internet, lo studio del Regno Unito è
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/20/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds
di topotaul
31 commenti
Tbh I much prefer a world with internet but it needs to be used responsibly.
This is unfettered capitalism. Takes the greatest revolution since the industrial revolution and makes 50% of people wish it wasn’t a thing. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better (if it even does at this point, AI and robots means they won’t need people for much longer)
I love my internet time (aka all the time) but I do think we would all be a lot happier if it didn’t exist
This must be the typical idealism and maximalism typical for young people, I remember experiencing it myself with these sort of radical world changing ideas. Only when I was young I already lived in this “world without internet”, and I don’t remember it being all that better really than what I read about today, people still had addictions, obsessions, got radicalized, all that without internet/social media.
There’s no need for a “digital curfew”. Just have some self-discipline.
That would have been a world without Runescape whilst growing up, and that is a step too far for me.
Sounds from the article that they’d prefer a world without social media rather than the internet, which would be the best of both worlds.
Social media ≠ the entire internet.
Not a chance anywhere near half of young people would say they’d prefer a world without internet.
I don’t think they know what they’re asking for. Though to be fair I’m biased because technology is everything to me
Completely agree. I haven’t used the internet in years.
can we just keep streaming sites, online shopping and wiki’s but get rid of the rest
They think they would prefer it, but their behaviour suggests otherwise
Im just old enough to have had a childhood without the internet.
For all it’s faults (and there are many) the value of being able to talk to anyone anywhere, work out of an out of an office and stream/download movies, TV and music do outweigh the downsides.
That world wasn’t that different we just think it was because we don’t remember all that well or at all what it was like. Kids still killed themselves because they got bullied. They got groomed and radicalised. People still spread lies. Not that different from today.
The 2020s internet is a far cry from the 2000s internet.
Forget Twitter etc., return to web rings and forums.
I bet that proportion is much smaller among people who remember a world without the internet.
Give it back to universities and scientific institutions like how it was originally. You normies ruined it for all of us.
There’s so much more to the Internet than social media and mindless distractions. The improvements made to the public sector (like the nhs), to education, to industry are gargantuan and shouldn’t be so taken for granted.
so much of this is related to self-control and taking responsibility for your own actions, there is no reason in this world for 16-21 year olds to spend 4 hours A DAY on a social media site, none, but of course when they can’t put it down its the internet or apple or google’s fault. Take some personal responsibility and switch the fecking thing off.
I am in my 20s.
I wish there was no internet and I also do not.
I like that I can access gov sites. I like using AI for writing, some research, ext.
I don’t use social media that much apart from Reddit… But it is addictive and I don’t like it.
I like podcasts, audio books, I like the movies.
I am not fond of the media bombardment and constant news speculations and speculative articles – even if I like podcasts about politics and current news (but is that too different from my grandpa in 1950s when he had a radio?)
I don’t like the “shorts” on medias. I don’t like the memes. I don’t like the constant commenting and Pickering.
The internet is incredible, one of humanity’s greatest achievements.
But I truly believe that social media has been a net negative for the public.
Meta in particular is just a cancer on this world, I cannot think of a single company that has done more damage to our society than that one.
I would definitely be in favour of a ban for under 16s, but honestly if I could just push a button and make it all disappear and never come back, I would.
This has been the year that I’ve really broke away from most of it.
That’s what they say – but take their phones away from them and they’ll squeal.
It’s such a shame because these tech giants really ruined the whole thing by going public imho.
In the early days …even up to about 2014 this space was _completely_ manageable. Screen time was a problem for some, sure, but it wasn’t the crack-addiction we see today.
They don’t, this is why these polls are pointless
Ask them do they want to spend £13 for each CD and have to buy them phically only, ask them do they want streaming services to close and have to watch tv only without catchup
Nobody’s forcing them to use it! How about they go away and leave the ‘Net to those that appreciate it 👍
‘We’d prefer a life before the internet’ says the generation with zero experience pre-internet.
Rubbish – without social media, much more agreeable of a statistic, but unsure that young people are aware how much of modern life relies on the internet in some capacity.
I’m middle aged and I would prefer a world without it.
Capitalism broke it.
IMO, the issue came about when companies discovered that rather then using the internet to sell a product, the users could become the product. This became very obvious with the rise of social media and even more pronounced once smartphones gave everyone internet access in their pockets at all times.
Now they make money through data harvesting and ads. The more they can glue you to your phone, the more they make.
Everything was sanitised and covered in ads and clickbait bullshit. Because it’s all owned and ran by a handful of companies.
They wouldn’t.
Even google maps alone is such a benefit to every day of our lives it’s hard to quantify. Being lost on the way to a date or your mates wedding isn’t fun.
90s early 2000s internet was amazing, now meh.
The internet seems just to be reddit, amazon, YouTube and so on.
While it was the wild west, it wasn’t as money based nor narcasist.
An amazing learning tool has been turned into something else.
Take forums, they where amazing, lots of smart folks sharing their hobby’s.
I met loads of cool folks, when I went to a music fest in the US, from a forum.
Reddit dosnt have the same type of community than forums had.