Now that you are used to it,can you imagine life without your computer?

No, Roxy, I can't imagine life without my computer and you have no idea how much I resent that!!!! :-)

No I can't.

We bought our son a computer over 20 years ago, I thought is was just the dumbest thing to buy a kid, times have changed.

My husband spent over $1,700 for a radio shack computer for a 12 year old who only played games on it.

That old thing couldn't do much like these newer models can do for allot less money

I really need my computer now that we live overseas.

I use it for everything from skyping our son in the US to watching netflix and of course e-mails to people and going onto answers for fun.

I have even recently found long lost family members, I have found a few even immigrated to Australia back around 1940 when they were relocated off their lands in the Sub Carpathains.

have a great aunt and 3 cousins living down under.

Amazing information all via the internet.

Well, I could probably get a lot more work done, but no, I cannot imagine how boring my life was before. I worked on a computer which is how I learned how to use one, but never got into it this deeply before I retired. It is so much easier than calling people or writing letters. It just is unimaginable how far things have come in my lifetime and how small the world has become since the computer.

That vacation I took reminded me what it was like before I had a computer, phone and television. I didn't really miss any of it and life was great without rushing to answer a phone. Didn't waste time much better spent on appreciating the world around me and doing things that really mattered. The outside world was wonderful! No intrusions to take away from it all.

I could do that and be just fine. :)

Only thing I missed really was friends. That's when snail mail becomes so much more appreciated... friends too.

Is this what you expected, problem child? lol

I admit quite freely - I'm completely hooked on using the computer. Can't imagine life without one.

All the things I do on the rig give an enormous amount of pleasure, digital photography and sending pictures to a large group of friends via picasa, writing travelogues, email to a very respectably large address-book, visiting yahoo q's and a's every day, writing articles and books for my own pleasure, buying books online for my Kindle, buying stuff via amazonwarehouse.com, the list goes on and on.

Admittedly, there are time when you can hear me muttering angrily, 'This bloody, bloody computer is stuck again..! I HATE computers..!' But that passes once I solve the problem. So, no, I can't imagine life without my rig.

It would be frustrating the first week or two, I use it for recipes, shopping for items that I can't find locally, catching up on the news, etc. There would be more trips to the library and some sort of handicraft project going.

My being home bound - it is my connection to the outside world.

It has allowed me to research my family tree and collect my ancestors through the census on Ancestry .com and other genealogy web sites. Also met cousins from other countries on genealogy message boards. We have exchanged invaluable information.

I have written my personal history - the history of my mothers lineage - my fathers lineage - made family videos of weddings - graduation - birthdays and all my children and grandchildren achievements and much more. Restored old photos - photo albums - photo slide shows etc. etc.

And of course I have loved being here on answers for over 6 years.

Can't live without it. All of the above - with my husband inspiring me to keep on going.

DeeJay - Hubby Truly is my inspiration.

Roxy,you could not have asked this question at a better time.Thanks to a poor installation of another system in our apartment building by AT&T;I was without computer service for four days.

I could not access my bank account.I could not get to my emails.Life was horrible.I could not read my on line newspapers.Most of all I missed my friends on Yahoo Answers.

I imagine myself going to the library, maybe once a wk., using their computer, just to do important stuff like wish happy birthdays to my friends on facebook. Not hard at all for me to imagine. The computer and internet are designed to be tools to make one's life easier, and sometimes more enjoyable, not an obsession to take control of one's life.

Hi,

I would be devastated if I lost my computer

I have not been well for several months and my writing and internet and Yahoo are my main activity.

I even use the computer when I am watching TV

regards MGD

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The only thing I would miss is online banking. No more check writing, stamp buying, envelope licking...and then forgetting to mail the dang things and getting a late charge!