It matters for various reasons.

If the FBI is standing at your doorstep right now, it is only because your IP address matters to
them more than that of your neighbor. I mean during the last week, your computer had logged
into Facebook with the same IP address that was used by a hacker yesterday to own a
Government website.

Jokes aside, IP addresses are as important to the internet as house addresses are to the postal
system. They matter the most on the internet because everything is talking to everything else
solely because of the ability to make a direct connection to an IP address.

Whenever you’re doing something online, you are communicating with remote servers which
respond to your request and do something for you.

And most of the time, these servers identify you as a unique visitor based on the uniqueness
of your IP address. Most servers have blacklists of shady/abusive/restricted IP addresses that
they do not want to respond to. Make sure your IP address isn’t on those. It matters.

Your IP address also tells the remote server which region you’re coming from, and from
which Internet Service Provider.

The previous generation of IP addressing which was called IP Version 4 or IPV4 is rapidly
becoming obsolete, because it could only address upto about 4 billion unique IP addresses.

The newer version, IPv6 will allow every atom on the planet to have it’s own IP address but
still not run the system out of IP addressing space.

So, it matters that you go online on an IPv6 network. It matters that you have an IPv6
address. Go IPv6. Go happy.