Restricting girlfriend internet usage?

[iknowexactly]

I actually think this is a valid concern, probably because I am from a older generation that didn't even see ANALOG TAPE ANSWERING MACHINES until I was a teenager.

There are at least two stages of (technological dependence and corruption)--

first the one where early adopters
start taking advantage of the new tech, and even they are aware it is new- and what things were like before it.

and later when younger people (like you in the collective) forget what it was like BEFORE the new tech, and are completely unaware of the disadvantages of it, because they have nothing to compare it to.

I've explained to younger girls in the Phils how in the USA the educated classes put away their phones during conversations, meals etc, and that it is the poor and uneducated that are constantly playing with their phones and are considered rude.

To some extent this is true, and definitely appeals to their sense of propriety and snobbery.

 

[GlobalMan]

^ politeness and not using phones during conversations, meals etc is important, but a whole different issue than what the OP is talking about- restricting access like her personal North Korea. If a guy has a desire to control a woman's actions to that level then he's doing it wrong, and chose a faulty woman to begin with, and didn't make his expectations or values clear early on.