Intel has just done a survey of adults in the United States and published the results under the title “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy”. One thing they found out is that 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would rather go without sex for two weeks instead of giving up access to the Internet.
This raises some questions. First: what is their definition of sex? My definition is very different than Clinton’s as you might remember. Semantics aside the result is hardly surprising. Two weeks months without sex is pretty normal for 90% 99% of our readers but 2 weeks without the web, well, that hasn’t happened to me since I first got online in 1996. Seriously.
Sex isn’t the only thing we would sacrifice though. Cable television, dining out, shopping for clothes and gym memberships are all less important to us than Internet access.
“The survey revealed that 65 percent of adults feel they cannot live without Internet access, and even more — 71 percent — responded that it is important or very important to have Internet-enabled devices, such as laptops, netbooks and mobile Internet devices that can provide them with real-time updates on important issues including the state of the economy.”
Who needs sex (with someone else) if you have the Internet? Check this out:
Found at the NYTimes.
The Next Web is turning more and more in to digg these days. While Digg is bigger than Techcrunch, I had the impression The Next web was more about startups and new internet developments. Funny Youtube movies fit that purpose less, I’d say..
I’m not sure, but I think the original version was this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2kPpmEQf_c
The one shown above is just one of the many remakes.
Oh, we need to reshape Maslow’s pyramid! :)
“Two weeks months without sex is pretty normal for 90% 99% of our readers”
From today, i am officially not part of your readers :D
I agree with your thoughts on it though: this question may be put into different contexts.
PS: if 99 of your readers live without sex for 2 months, would they change anything in exchange for a bit of it???
I’ll stop reading your blog now ;)
i tried, but it was girls only…
Ups, i came back :)
Great video! Haven’t seen it before. Anyways, yes the internet is very important to me, but I would chose sex (good sex at least) over the internet. But, the internet would be in the top five of most important things to me.
Hey! I’ll have you know that I get LOTS of Internet access.
We try to write about everything that is interesting for people who work on The Next Web. Not just about start-ups OR Europe OR funding OR technology but a combination of everything. And now and then we throw something in that is funny or ‘light’.
That is actually also a remake. Tbe original is by Avenue Q (as it also says in the video above). A not so great quality version can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc
Good point! Write a book and become famous. Would work. Fame will get you lost of Internet & sex.
I’m sure you are just a member of the “WeMasturbate” group on MySpace… ;-)