How do you internet?

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How do you consume content on the internet?

Do you open lots of pages or tabs. Do you have a set group of sites you visit every day? Do you just click on whatever comes around? What are your "Must check out daily" sites?

For me I use firefox browser and you can sort bookmarks into folders. And you can put folders in folders.
I have 2 folders on the top tier: Main and Extra.

2nd one first, Extra is all the stuff I bookmark for later, or for irregular browsing. say once a week or less than daily.

In the Main folder I have all the sites that I open when I first turn the laptop on, or after I get home from work. Basically it has all the sites I go to on the regular. Here is the list of my sites, they open in this order.


Facebook (set to newest posts not top stories)
Instagram
Twitter
Youtube (set to my subscription page, uploads only)
Bestofyoutube.com (for cool random stuff not in my feed)
myconfinedspace.com
Reddit.com (organized to show the subreddits I like best, then I browse r/all)
Feedly.com (a good rss feeder)
Alttabme.com
Twitch.com (set to my following page so I can see who is streaming)

Most of these are pretty self explanatory. A few are not.

Myconfinedspace.com is a site where people can submit images. I feed my screensaver folder from this on the regular. that folder has over 5 thousand pics in it at this point.
Warning, this site does come with a NSFW label because it links to its NSFW sister site. Some proxies block it for this reason. They are only links though. It also has some borderline NESFW (the e stands for exactly) stuff that is darkened out until you hover over it. (girls in bikinis mostly) Best to stay away from this site if you are worried about people seeing you do stuff on your comp you would have to explain.

Reddit.com is probably known by most people, but damn if you can't find the latest trends, memes, news, info on any subject. I do have a set of about 40 subreddits that I particularly enjoy and they are seperated out so that when I bring up the site it shows the most popular posts in those subreddits.
WARNING: because Reddit is user run and user policed (mostly) there can be some (lots) of stuff you don't want to see. This is why its good to subscribe to the ones you like and only stray from those cautiously.

Feedly.com is a RSS Feeder. What it does is check out sites that you designate and gives you small snapshots of content that is posted to them. These snapshots are hyperlinks to the actual site and page so you can go to the site to give them the traffic. I believe reading on the Feedly site gives them the traffic as far as SEO counts too. Its a great way to follow sites that either post not enough to check every day, or that post tons in a day so you can consume it at your leisure.
I have all the gossip sites I follow, and blogs of my favorite authors, and webcomics. Things like that.


My internet day starts with me clicking on the Main folder with my mouse scroll wheel which opens each one in a separate tab.
I then glance at Facebook, and Twitter to see if there is anything big I want to check out, or if its all stuff I can come back to later.
Next I go to youtube and best of YT and "open in new tab" any video I want to watch. This starts the buffering so I can come back to them.
I then scroll through all the new stuff on MCS and save any pics that make me laugh or I just like. then close it out.
I skip over Reddit, TAB, and Feedly and go to Twitch. If there is no one I need to watch right now I close twitch out.
Now my real internetting begins.
I go to AltTabMe and check all the unread threads and chat box. When I am done I leave this open since I come back frequently to check the chat box
I go back to Facebook and Twitter and read through all the stories I have missed since I last was on. I'll close those tabs once I get through, although if bored I go back to Facebook and maybe PM people.
Now all that is left is Reddit, Feedly and Youtube videos. I will jump back and forth as the mood strikes me. There is so much content on those 3 things that I can easily spend all my time just browsing and getting lost.


Well, thats it for me. How do you internet?

 

[dainjre]

I check here and subreddits for things I care about (that's not very many things). I stay pretty out of touch from everything and I like it that way.

 

[Crake]

At home I'll pop on facebook and AltTabMe simultaneously for the most part and peruse at my leisure. At work when I have time I catch up on reddit starting with r/all then moving into a few subreddits when I feel I've exhausted the interesting posts. Sometimes I'll go on engadget if reddit is a bit dry that day. I don't really browse the web much other then that, most of my PC time at home is spent in games. I don't get a huge amount of emails either so I mostly just read those on my phone.

I used to watch twitch pretty regularly but I've been on a bit of a break from it lately. Might get back into it in the future, but my current gaming habits are not very twitch worthy and I mainly only watch games I'm playing. Ain't nobody want to watch an Archeage twitch, me included.

 

[Euchale]

It depends on where I am. On my work PC I keep TAB, DIL (deutsche-in-London) open at all times, other than that I just open it when needed, most of the time it´s only spiegel-online for my news needs.

On my PC at home I have several folders. One is called daily which currently houses
-TAB
-Youtube
-Facebook
-Mail thingy from work

Then I have the following folders, that I use when needed:
-Homepages, this is for projects I follow, mainly kickstarter or other cools stuff
-Music, this is for webpages where I can find music sheets and also remixes
-Games, this is where I store faqs that I follow for some games, so I always keep using the same one
-Zomg Zufall, this is where I keep random mini flash animations like this: (http://z0r.de/3678). Warning some of them can be considered NSFW and also epilepsy inducing
-Diverse stuff, I keep my porn in there
And that is pretty much it.

 

[Baldoraxx]

This is the perfect thread for me

I have a set routine of what I do when I get into work and I don't start working until I get it done.

-AltTabMe
-FoxNews
-MSNBC
-The Blaze
-Other news sources
-Yahoo (check 2 emails)
-Outlook (check my outlook email and then check my school email which is tied to outlook)

After that, it's pretty much straight to work and keeping Tab open while I use the internet to search for work related stuff.

I HATE having multiple windows open. At the most I will have 2 open and even then I hate it. One would be for work and the other would be for TAB and fun stuff. I usually keep the work stuff as a "Tab" but sometimes I want a full screen work browser open and I keep my fun tabs in a corner and not fully blown up on screen.

 

[tr1age]

Ain't nobody want to watch an Archeage twitch, me included.

We do!

 

[Crake]

We do!

Alright well I'll think about it.

 

[ToxicAsF]

TAB
Reddit
Facebook

That's really all I browse nowadays. I find things on the three that link me to other sources and then roam aimlessly sometimes from there. But that's really all I do browsing wise.