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What do you do?

Myspace
0
No votes
Facebook
16
14%
Other social networking sites - Bebo etc.
0
No votes
Twitter tweeting
3
3%
Twitter reading
3
3%
Blog writing
1
1%
Blog reading
2
2%
My own website
3
3%
Message boards/fora
11
10%
Yahoo! Messenger
2
2%
MSN (Windows Live) Messenger
11
10%
Other messengers - AIM, Skype, ICQ etc.
1
1%
Original Internet pastimes that people seem to have forgotten such as newsgroups and IRC
6
5%
research/learning
15
13%
watching movies/TV/listening to music
17
15%
adult entertainment (porn)
11
10%
work/my own business
10
9%
 
Total votes: 112

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Post by Derek Hazell »

This place gets a lot quieter when Countdown's off air, so maybe people indulge in their other Internet hobbies. Which things do you do regularly online?
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Only 10 apply to me.

Would've been 11 if you added "Anything Else". :)
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Howard Somerset wrote:Only 10 apply to me.

Would've been 11 if you added "Anything Else". :)
'only' Howard?! I spend way too much time on the Internet and only ticked 8!
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Howard Somerset wrote:Would've been 11 if you added "Anything Else". :)
Not Internet Dating I hope, Howard . . . your wife seems very nice ;)

Actually I did think of putting "Other (please specify)", but I got a bit bored with that option, so feel free to share in a post if you do anything else.
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Derek Hazell wrote:
Howard Somerset wrote:Would've been 11 if you added "Anything Else". :)
Not Internet Dating I hope, Howard . . . your wife seems very nice ;)

Actually I did think of putting "Other (please specify)", but I got a bit bored with that option, so feel free to share in a post if you do anything else.
No. Internet Dating was not one I had in mind. :)

One thing missing from your list, which is also in addition to other activities I was thinking of earlier, is "Game Playing", such as Apterous.
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Why have you lumped work/my own business together? "What I do on the internet is work"; "what I do on the internet is my own business" — hardly the same.
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Hugh Binnie wrote:Why have you lumped work/my own business together? "What I do on the internet is work"; "what I do on the internet is my own business" — hardly the same.
Lol brilliant.

You're on some kind of list now as well.
Probably a list of funny people.
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Porn > Facebook
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Jimmy Gough wrote:Porn > Facebook
When you become a True Internet Master you'll realise they can complement each other :)
That said, I've not yet teased one out on anyone's wall.
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Bit surprising that at least two people who have voted so far have excluded forums.
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Howard Somerset wrote:Bit surprising that at least two people who have voted so far have excluded forums.
Guess it's all relative, and requires some personal interpretation. For example, I check my MySpace account perhaps once every 3 or 4 months, but didn't think this was good enough to tick the MySpace box. And whilst I often end up reading an article on a blog, it's usually one that's been sent as a link to me from a friend or linked from another site I read, so the fact that the article is on a blog and not just anywhere on the Internet is irrelevant, hence not ticking that box either.
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No computer games? FantasticContraption for the win.
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Deleted. Something very strange happened today and I'm not even on drugs. :|
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Is this some kind of weird joke Alec? If so, I don't get it in the slightest.
If not, and you're just being an utter noob, try clicking here.
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