imagine trying to coordinate a surprise birthday party without group chats or wondering what your crush is doing without stalking their instagram, honestly that sounds like absolute chaos. people would just be bored and lonely staring at walls instead.
Without the internet, we'd still be arguing about movies in person like it's 1995-except nobody could fact-check whether that actor was really in that film. Happiness? Sure, if ignorance is bliss.
Without the internet, mortality rates would've stayed higher-no telemedicine, no medical research acceleration. That's not happiness, that's preventable suffering we dodged.