So you're online, what are you doing?

[lithy]

This will likely turn into one of those 'list these things' threads that I hate, but it might spark something of interest for me so I'm making it anyway.

This is something I was curious about. I find myself sitting online and often pretty bored. There are only a handful of websites that I visit, most update just once a day so once they've been read, I sit there refreshing forums waiting for something to happen.

I feel like I should be more productive online, maybe accomplishing something, maybe learning something, but certainly not trolling neo-geo forums 9 times out of 10.

Some of the daily visit websites for me:

E-Mail
Check accounts, update stock prices, financials, etc.
Uni-watch.com
Ratebeer and Neo-Geo.com for forum banter
MSNBC to make sure the world didn't end
During the day I'll think of something random and usually end up on wikipedia for at least a little while.

That's about it.

 

[Marek]

neo-geo
email
dailykos.com
sensibleerection.com (10+ year co-op blog with hysterical comments. reminds me of ng.com sort of)
front page of reddit.com
mountainweather.com (JH valley forecasts for low and upper mountain elevations)
noaa.gov (more weather. typically only visit this site in winter)

Like you I end up on wiki tangents and also end up on unofficialnetworks.com some times as well.

 

[Neo Ash]

Neo-Geo.com/forum
Audiogon - Market & Forum
Google News
Neo-Geo.com - Chat
Wiki
Random site that reminds me I have reached the "end" of the internet.
Youtube
abovetopsecret.com
email

 

[cannonball]

The only websites I visit daily are this site, youtube, and feedly for rockpapershotgun, destructoid, and the onion feeds.

 

[whisper2053]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

If I truly get bored, I hit the button and it brings me something I like. *shrugs* It takes a bit before it starts to catch on to your likes, but once it does it really does work. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[aria]

Email
Neo-Geo.com/forum
Reddit, mostly via the Alien Blue app on my phone during downtime (I have about 6 or 7 subs I read regularly)
YouTube to watch Russian drivers try to kills themselves in new and creative ways
HauteLook/RueLala/Gilt to browse the flash sales at their scheduled times

If it's college football season, then I add a few more.

 

[Neo Ash]

I have no idea how I forgot to list Reddit! I wear that shit out!

 

[NeoSneth]

it's sad that most of my time is reddit and subreddits. The scientific subreddits are sometimes a good read.

I also browse amazon prime for random junk to buy/try.

Ebay for the occasional impulse buy. I like using the "best offer" feature to lowball the shit out of people.

then i refresh ng.com unrelated and marketplace threads for random crap to do.


I used to have a long list of sites i would check. I rarely even check gadget blogs anymore. It's mostly expensive junk and phone wars.

 

[LoneSage]

hanging on the chinese subreddits.
memrise
resources.echineselearning.com
http://www.qq.com/ (chinese facebook)
youku.com (chinese youtube)
sometimes i google ideas for TEFL games but that never helps because most of them are worthless.

the only reason i have facebook now is to show my family pictures. i've gradually defriended just about everyone i knew in america. my facebook is lonely now. the only people who seem to post daily now are spinmaster and merc. i feel weird for knowing so much about them. maybe the only thing left to do is defriend them too

 

[Neo Ash]

Errr......ummmm.....no one has listed p0rn sites yet.


They must be too bizarre to list. Sick fucks.

 

[Sunsoft]

Most of the time it's Ebay as I sell a lot and YouTube. Occasionally I watch a few videos on best gore and crazyshit.com and check the online news.

 

[Adderall]

email
reddit
mtgox
NG
shmups
wikipedia - random article
yahoo JP

 

[Dr Shroom]

n-g.com
various porn sites/tubegalore
jewtube
email
wikipedia
/a/

 

[Yamazaki]

motherless - waiting for new videos to be uploaded

 

[Magician]

Pandora or WMP internet radio
Amazon - checking current orders and planning new orders.
Manga - Naruto and/or Bleach on Wednesday, HSD on Friday or Monday.
Wiki - general browsing.
Nintendolife - my favorite site that covers my current favorite systems.
NG - forum topics and teh drama.
Email
Youtube - checking subscribed channel updates for lunch viewing.
Rottentomatoes
VG247 and IGN - for misc video game news.
News

 

[ki_atsushi]

my surfing usually goes like this:

check new uploads for my subscriptions at youtube
check new posts at ng.com
check facebook for new posts
check ng.com again

rinse repeat, etc.

if it's really slow I'll get into trouble by checking Amazon and/or eBay and buy something else I don't need

then later on, for porn I choose youporn

 

[NGCDFreak]

Neo-geo.com
Youtube
Dreamcast-scene
Amazon
ebay (looking at stuff I can't get right now due to the fact I don't have a paypal account yet.)
Email
google & Yahoo searches

 

[Heinz]

Neo geo forums
Wikipedia
email
battlefield 3
counter strike

 

[StevenK]

Pretty much exact same things as everyone else here, but one other thing I look at every now and again is isstracker.com - it shows you where the international space station is over earth, and you get an idea of how fast it moves.

Far better than that though, is you can see it with the naked eye, no need for a microscope or anything, if you look in the sky at the right time. This website shows you when to look: http://www.heavens-above.com/SelectTown.aspx

If you have got a pair of binoculars you can even see the solar sails on it, it's pretty amazing really, there's people living up in it looking down over earth from space and you can see their ship with your own eyes. Have a few beers beforehand and you can get pretty caught up in it all.

If you're in to this kind of thing that is, otherwise it's just a moving light in the sky really.

 

[AlecRob]

Gmail
Sega-16
various tech blogs
Neo-Geo
wikipedia
Skype
facebook every once in a while.

 

[Kazuki Dash]

neo-geo
email
dailykos.com

Pandora or WMP internet radio
Amazon - checking current orders and planning new orders.
Manga - Naruto and/or Bleach on Wednesday, HSD on Friday or Monday. (plus Fairy Tail, Hajime no Ippo, City Hunter, and Onepunch-Man)
Youtube

Boing Boing

Matt Taibbi's Blog

Anime News Network

...and other assorted randomness to fill time.

 

[PleaseKillMeNow]

Other than here?

Facebook (I'm on it all the time, even though I don't really do anything on it- I really need to clean up my Friends List).

Mentalfloss
Cracked
MSN & Yahoo (I love punishing myself and reading the comments on both sites)
The A.V. Club
Mymedicare.gov (work)
MSPRP (work)
Healthgrades (work)
CMS ICD 09 Database (work)
Nextiva (work)
Gmail

That's pretty much everyday.

I have Spotify Premium for radio, and like others have mentioned I love going on Wikipedia rampages from time to time. I do it sometimes on TV Tropes, too.

 

[Ancient Flounder]

n-g.com
Email
Facebook
/wooo/
Wikipedia
Various gaming news sites

I also tend to read articles on Hardcore Gaming 101 a lot when I'm relaxing in bed at night.

 

[Tron]

ng.com
pcenginefx.com
Digitalpress
Youtube,to check my subs and watch any thing else on it.
Amazon,all ways checking for sales there.
Ebay
allgengames podcast,or any other ones i listen to.

 

[Renmauzo]

N-G.com
Mad Men season 6 eps. on one screen
Drawing up some character model sheets on the other