30 Times People Showed They Have Lost Touch With Reality

So if you have a lot of trouble staying off the internet, it’s important to at least have someone in your life who’s not terminally online who can keep you grounded. “I love that, like the majority of people probably, our most treasured and connected moments are the simple, real-world stuff,” Jones writes about her own relationship. “Smoking in the garden, foraging for wild garlic at sundown, holding hands at the supermarket. The internet is full of noise, and of people shouting over each other in order to be heard. When we’re together, all of that falls quiet.”

Being chronically online is likely to become more and more widespread amongst younger generations, especially considering that 42% of kids have a phone by age 10 nowadays. So as their elders, it’s probably wise for us to teach them the value of real life skills and interactions, since there’s no question they’ll understand technology better than we do. Take them outside, play sports with them, take them camping, teach them how to swim and ride a bike. And please for goodness sakes, teach them that social media is not real and does not actually affect their value as a person whatsoever.

We love the internet as much as the next panda, but we hope this list has served as a healthy reminder to go take a walk, sit in the park, read a book, or do anything that doesn’t require an internet connection for a few hours. Some Vitamin D and fresh air will certainly do you some good. Keep upvoting the posts you find particularly hilarious or cringey, and let us know in the comments below what the most “chronically online” behavior you’ve ever seen was. Then, if you’d like to check out another Bored Panda article featuring more questionable posts from social media, look no further than right here!