What’s your website addiction? #TiWiWf
We all have one. Don’t try to deny it. It’s that website you click on when you think your boss isn’t watching … when you need a mental break from that report you’re development. It’s that site where your book is gathering reviews or your app is generating sales or your best friend just wrote a post and you’re 100% sure it’s about you but you’ll be damned if you ask.
Maybe it’s news. Weather. Sports. Crocheting tips.
It’s there.
You know it, too.
How do I know?
Of course I have mine.
I have a whole list of them in fact.
Go ahead and roll your eyes. I do it to myself. But the more I look at it, the more I see it’s the same series of sites … social stuff first, books second, news headlines to keep up with current events. Do I read everything on all the pages?
Never. I skim headlines, posts, fees, whatever it is to get a general feel or sense for what’s going on.
I might spend 10 seconds or 10 minutes on the site and I click off … my addiction need ‘met’.
Only to have it rear its head again later. I can be in the middle of a project – thinking about my work, my writing, my kids play and a desire to know what’s going on … with my friends, my family or even just the world will over take.
One click and I’m back.
Now, I will say, the busier I get, the less frequently I visit these sites … but if I’m bored, I could spend hours going from one to the other, refreshing 8000 times wondering if something new is going to be posted.
Thinking about it logically … this is all kinda stupid. 🙂 I mean, seriously? It’s like the need for a cigarette and while physically healthier, I’m not sure it’s mental healthier.
At least I’m not spending my day clicking on porn sites. 😉 (No, really, I’m not).
I think I have a solution for my problem and this is where my question comes in. I need more sites to ‘love to go to’ so that I have so many I ‘love’ that I don’t have time to visit them all. You see … when I have too many interests, they all take a back seat, so this is my personal reverse psychology on myself.
Think it’ll work?
Yeah … me neither.
But hey … at least we can be in each others’ company as we visit site after site.
So … want to know my biggest web habits?
- Goodreads (duh)
- Twitter via TweeDeck
- Facebook (most addicted for long-term consumption)
- Emotion Thesaurus (Yes, seriously)
- My own website statistics (sounds dumb, but I love seeing how many people visit and from where they come – remember, I’m a nerd)
- J Taylor Publishing (as if something would be new there, too)
- Amazon (obvious reasons)
- Fox News (Gotta skim headlines)
- WRAL.com (Gotta skim local headlines)
And lately, these sites have come into my ‘Top sites’ list (as developed by my browser from the sites I visit way too often:
I’ve visited 1000s of websites but these are ones I stick to. I think because they give me the most information fast. But hey … what can I do? And no, ‘turning off the Internet’ is not an option.
How about you?
“I could spend hours going from one to the other, refreshing 8000 times wondering if something new is going to be posted.” <<I so totally, absolutely, definitely do not do this!
O_O
Liar. Liar. Pants on Fire. 😉 LOL
Haha~! I stay at home with my little one now, but I check email constantly. So I guess Google and MSN are my addiction. Then Amazon, authors and bloggers sites, my local library. My goodness, I could go on and on.
I have to check that Boxers or Briefs site. 😉 I hope it is what I think it is.
Going on and on is the big problem, isn’t it? 🙂
If I want to steal a few seconds, or if my brain just kinda deflates, I play Spider Solitaire.
Websites? I have a huge list as well.
Hobbies sites.
My own site (I love to see who visits and who is interested enough to comment).
I have way too many writer friends with way too many good things to say.
The Novel Approach site (year long workshop) and I’m way behind on my reading and more importantly, 9000 words behind on my posting.
Facebook.
The Toronto Blue Jays.
And now with the I-Pad, my wife has hooked me on two news apps. I think Pinintrest is one.
Sigh…
I’m avoiding, aren’t I? 😉
I’d definitely say that’s avoiding, Dale. 😉