Life would be woeful without the internet

More than half of UK web users think their quality of life would deteriorate if the internet suddenly stopped working, new research has found.


According to a poll from anti-spam company OUTintheUK, many web users in the UK are becoming increasingly dependent on the net.


More than half (58.2 per cent) of 1,894 respondents said that if they woke up tomorrow morning and the internet had stopped working their quality of life would decline. Only 17.8 per cent said their life would improve.


This is despite OUTintheUK's lastest figures revealing that 55 per cent of email sent in May was junk mail, up from 40 per cent in April.