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What is your most frequently visited website?

HappyDude20

HappyDude20

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Upon discussing with my friends it turns out most of us visit Reddit, not just for laughs but also for news and current events.

Just wondering how others approach their use of the internet and where they get their info from?

for example both my grandparents tell me their most used and frequently visited website is YouTube. Yes, they get their news from YouTube as well.

my parents however stated either cnn.com or foxnews.com

my teenage sibling say tiktok is where they keep abreast of the current zeitgeist.
 
HappyDude20 said:
Just wondering how others approach their use of the internet and where they get their info from?
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One important point is that websites aren't the same as The Internet.

There are plenty of online services that I access almost exclusively via mobile apps and rarely/never via a web browser.

Twitter and Instagram are two excellent examples of online services that I never visit via a web browser.

There are a handful of online services that I almost exclusively visit with from a desktop web browser, primarily because their mobile websites are lousy and there's no useful mobile app. This includes local news sites.

Amusingly, most of them tweet so I see the headlines in Twitter before I see them in a web browser.

For sure my desktop web browser usage has plummeted over the past five years. It has probably been a month since I've accessed Mint.com via a desktop web browser even though I access the service multiple times a day via mobile apps.

Also 99.9% of the time I read my e-mail via a standalone e-mail application and NOT in webmail.

There's also a pattern based on days of the week. On weekdays I am far more inclined to access services providing financial and news information. On weekends it's sports and leisure. I don't even need to look at the calendar. On Fridays my e-mail inbox gets bombarded by leisure/e-commerce related messages; from this flood I know the weekend is imminent.
 
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There's not really the one site... Have a few message boards pinned to my browser, including MacRumors. Then I use Reeder/RSS feeds for a few things I'm into. There are also the ones I just keep in my bookmarks and look at whenever.

Follow the general local/national/international news through TV/radio, and will sometimes read a few of the articles that end up on Pinboard's popular feed.

My mom usually watches CNN and my dad watches Fox News/OANN/etc and listens to conservative news talk radio, but they both turned it all off during this administration, except for the coverage on the summer protests, election results. My dad also reads stuff on Yahoo's homepage and YouTube.

My brother just gets his news like all the other teenagers.

When I was on social media, it was to talk with my friends. I never used it, nor Reddit/YouTube, for specifically following news stuff. Liked just keeping it to my desktop too.
 
For actual news happening in the US and the world I look in on The Washington Post website every day, usually several times, especially if something major is happening.

For everything else, I have several websites with forums which I visit daily, and participate in regularly, including MR, of course. Hard to say which is my most frequently visited site, but probably it's a tie between MR and Nikon Cafe, a photography site where I have hung out for years, too.
 
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At home MacRumors.
At work Netsuite (our online business platform).
But like others have said I also access various news apps which aren’t websites exactly.
 
Daily: this forum and one other, Yahoo! home page
I spend the most time on the latter, reading news

Not daily, but often
My bank's website
Discover.com
Amazon Photos
 
MacRumors PowerPC forum is the first stop after waking up.

MacRumors iPhone forum

MacRumors Community forum

Reddit/Vintage Apple forum

Reddit/Sprint forum

Reddit/T-Mobile forum

Rinse, lather repeat.

When I'm ready, Google News gets added in, then Flipboard. If I want some more entertainment news I drop into Yahoo. Sometimes I check my email there.

This is pretty much from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed and I do all the actual work for my job that I get paid for around this cycle.
 
Erehy Dobon said:
One important point is that websites aren't the same as The Internet.

There are plenty of online services that I access almost exclusively via mobile apps and rarely/never via a web browser.

Twitter and Instagram are two excellent examples of online services that I never visit via a web browser.

There are a handful of online services that I almost exclusively visit with from a desktop web browser, primarily because their mobile websites are lousy and there's no useful mobile app. This includes local news sites.

Amusingly, most of them tweet so I see the headlines in Twitter before I see them in a web browser.

For sure my desktop web browser usage has plummeted over the past five years. It has probably been a month since I've accessed Mint.com via a desktop web browser even though I access the service multiple times a day via mobile apps.

Also 99.9% of the time I read my e-mail via a standalone e-mail application and NOT in webmail.

There's also a pattern based on days of the week. On weekdays I am far more inclined to access services providing financial and news information. On weekends it's sports and leisure. I don't even need to look at the calendar. On Fridays my e-mail inbox gets bombarded by leisure/e-commerce related messages; from this flood I know the weekend is imminent.
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I truly hate the little dinky phone screens and iPad screens for anything website related. I am far more comfortable using a keyboard than trying to hold a device and input a message on tiny little keys with my other hand (no, I am not a dual thumb user as my thumbs hit the wrong keys).

Everyone has their preference of course, but for anything more than a short email or text message I always pull out a computer. I have plenty of laptops and desktops to use. It's just easier (for me).
 
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eyoungren said:
I truly hate the little dinky phone screens and iPad screens for anything website related. I am far more comfortable using a keyboard than trying to hold a device and input a message on tiny little keys with my other hand (no, I am not a dual thumb user as my thumbs hit the wrong keys).

Everyone has their preference of course, but for anything more than a short email or text message I always pull out a computer. I have plenty of laptops and desktops to use. It's just easier (for me).
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90% of my posts on here are done on my phone screen. But if I’m shopping or comparing items I use my Mac and the duel screens. Not really a fan of laptops. If I’m using a Mac it’s sat at a desk.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
90% of my posts on here are done on my phone screen. But if I’m shopping or comparing items I use my Mac and the duel screens. Not really a fan of laptops. If I’m using a Mac it’s sat at a desk.
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I get it. My wife is the same. She has a laptop and her work laptop, but she continuously uses her phone for everything.

But, laptops and desktops are just all around easier for me.

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I never use my work MacBook Pro for personal stuff. Even if I browse MR it’s on my phone at work.
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Well, my work Mac is sitting in the chair there. It's been powered on oh, about a total of 3 or 4 times since May 2020. I work from home now because of the pandemic and my MacPro has all the apps.

That said, when I was using it, at work, I did use it for personal stuff. My employer is a small printing firm, with the bosses included we probably total less than 20 people. There's nothing Orwellian installed and my account is an Admin account. When they first gave me that MBP I asked if the company had a usage policy. Apparently the thought had never occurred to my boss because the question confused him. I was told it was mine and just use it like I would anything else I own.

That said, I don't have personal accounts on it. It's funny though because that MBP is a 2015 and the youngest Mac I own is a 2009 Mac Mini and a 2009 MacPro.
 
eyoungren said:
Well, my work Mac is sitting in the chair there. It's been powered on oh, about a total of 3 or 4 times since May 2020. I work from home now because of the pandemic and my MacPro has all the apps.

That said, when I was using it, at work, I did use it for personal stuff. My employer is a small printing firm, with the bosses included we probably total less than 20 people. There's nothing Orwellian installed and my account is an Admin account. When they first gave me that MBP I asked if the company had a usage policy. Apparently the thought had never occurred to my boss because the question confused him. I was told it was mine and just use it like I would anything else I own.

That said, I don't have personal accounts on it. It's funny though because that MBP is a 2015 and the youngest Mac I own is a 2009 Mac Mini and a 2009 MacPro.
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We don’t either. But I try to keep my work and personal separate. It gets enough use with the 50 hours a week I do a week!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
We don’t either. But I try to keep my work and personal separate. It gets enough use with the 50 hours a week I do a week!
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My problem now is kind of the reverse. Since I'm doing my work on my personal Mac, work apps and work files have invaded my personal Mac. I have a separate drive for that but there's only one reason I have Google Hangouts installed and that's work messaging (sigh).
 
eyoungren said:
My problem now is kind of the reverse. Since I'm doing my work on my personal Mac, work apps and work files have invaded my personal Mac. I have a separate drive for that but there's only one reason I have Google Hangouts installed and that's work messaging (sigh).
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I used to do that. But these days it’s no harder to keep them separate.
 
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duckduckgo.com as my search engine.
Bitchute for entertainment and news.
Gab for social media.
 
For news, the Guardian, The FT, BBC, Economist, The Irish Times, DW.

Elsewhere, MR, among others.

And, when writing (or, indeed, reading) I far prefer to be able to use a computer screen and a proper keyboard, and so, rarely use my iPhone.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
For news, the Guardian, The FT, BBC, Economist, The Irish Times, DW.

Elsewhere, MR, among others.

And, when writing (or, indeed, reading) I far prefer to be able to use a computer screen and a proper keyboard, and so, rarely use my iPhone.
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Ah yes, I'm quite familiar with reading the Guardian myself, although I mainly just go to BBC.
Any particular reason for reading The Irish Times? I never even knew it was a thing personally - I might have to have a look at it.


One other website I frequent most than any other has to be Reddit. There are a lot of subreddits on there which does just make it the "front page of the internet" to me.
 
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