My partner and I have a TV. It's an old 19" JVC with a lot of masking tape on the remote. We keep it in a closet most of the time. Needless to say, we don't have cable. And yes, we're a little smug about this.
I usually say we don't have cable because 1. we're cheap, and 2. we don't want to spend that much time watching TV.
Lately we've been thinking about getting high-speed internet access at home (we're currently dial-up Luddites). We both have high-speed at work, of course, but we're not supposed to use it for personal matters. After a recent reunion of old friends in Seattle where we often found ourselves huddled around a laptop with a high-speed connection, I'm wondering if once we have high speed Internet, I'm going to find myself spending more time online than I really want to.
The difference between watching TV and using the internet is that, at least theoretically, using the net is not the passive activity that watching television is. You can spend your time creating content instead of just absorbing it. But would I spend my time faithfully e-mailing, blogging, and coding html/xhtml for my personal web page, or watching YouTube clips and The Daily Show? Hmm. Stay tuned.
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