After nearly a week of no Twitter or Facebook, the wrath of the social networking masses appears to have settled as they settle into a quiet acceptance of their dodgy internet fate.

Along with this acceptance, comes an acknowledgement that there are actually some positives that we can draw from a lack of Twitter and Facebook. The blocking of these sites has almost certainly correlated with an increase of productivity as well as an increase in mobility, as friends are forced out of their virtual comfort zones to meet in the ‘real world’ (this being Shanghai, we mean the term loosely).

The truth is, without Facebook and Twitter, I don’t feel like I’m missing out on a whole lot. I am still managing to keep in touch with the people I really want to, and I still feel like I have an awareness of what’s going on in the world, thanks to the whole rest of the interwebs.

Once the jitters of the first three or four days of withdrawal wear off, people seem to relax into their new socially un-networked routines. We’ve seen it happen before, I mean, does anyone living in China even remember what YouTube is – I have vague recollections of a dude doing funny dances and a baby panda sneezing, but the rest is all a bit fuzzy.

Talk to me after a month without Twitter and you may well get a similarly blank memory. Not that I won’t be back on board the minute it becomes an option… I’m accepting, not superhuman.