Did you know? At the beginning of 2022, the Philippines’ internet penetration rate was 68.0 percent of the total population. So if you just look up from your smartphone when you go out, you’ll see how most people you come across are holding one or using one.
How dependent are you on the internet these days?
I remember when the taxi driver asked me how often I used maps when traveling, and I realized how I never even tried to memorize streets just because I could look them up anyway. But now, I’m forced to be present, thanks to the dumbphone I’m using, making me primitive and hyperaware of what’s happening around me.
How dependent are you on the internet?
Are you also wondering what the world would be like without the internet, now that we spend many of our waking hours on it? Then, you can check out my blog post about it.
If you’re curious about what’s happening worldwide, here’s an Internet outage map you might want to check out.
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