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I Can Quit The Net Anytime I Want — Now Reconnect My DSL Before I Kill 
You

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/09/24/12444337;cmt=6

Would you accept US$500 to go two weeks without Internet access? Think 
you could handle that? Well, a recent study on internet usage sponsored 
by Yahoo found that most participants were ready to return the 500 
bucks after only five days offline.

Regardless of age, household income or ethnic background, all 
participants in the ethnographic research study experienced feelings of 
loss, frustration and disconnectedness when cut off from the online 
world. Users described their time offline as "feeling left out of the 
loop," having to "resist temptation," and missing their "private escape 
time" during the day.