I can see how it affects my parents. Dad is literally in zombie mode: his life mainly consists of working, eating and keeping up with the wts standards for an ms. WHILE my step mother under the excuse of pioneering doesn't go to work, has time to play on his galaxy s (!), watches tv all the time and complains about the lack of money.
I literally have no non-jw relatives and I probably will never get out.
We didn't have internet until recently when there was a talk at the meeting about how we should keep up with technology and use the new jw.org site.