Anyone else on StumbleUpon?

[Sam Lowry]

I recently started using StumbleUpon, and it seems like a pretty cool website. It'll be good especially when I'm bored and felt like I've already read everything here. Does anyone else use it?

I'm also curious about the thumbs up and thumbs down. I've done a few thumbs up and shared a few pages, and I know it helps promote a website if there are a lot of people that give it the thumbs up. When I mouse over the thumbs down icon on the toolbar, it says "Thumb down the pages you don't like, so StumbleUpon knows not to recommend other pages like them," so I was wondering if it affects the overall rating for that website. Does anyone know?

If anyone wants to connect with me, I'm hringman (http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/hringman). To be honest, I joined because an artist mailing list I'm on said it was one good way to promote a website, so I'm hoping it will help with mine (http://www.ringmanpaintings.com/). But I'm gonna try not to get my hopes too high. I joined Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/hringman/)last year on the recommendation of a friend who's addicted to it, and thought it might be a good way to promote my art. But the most repins or likes my paintings have gotten is just a few, compared to the dozens that I get when I've pinned a picture of a cute animal or pretty landscape. Which I guess isn't too surprising since cute animals will always get attention on the internet.

[Sister Vigilante]

I'm on it. I don't want to seem condescending but almost everything that is on the internet (since 1994), is probably something I've seen. Stumbleupon helps me find new things.

I don't often "thumbs up" things but I do "thumbs down" something if it is truly stupid (today I downed a site with a bunch of fake facts (like the 'mind your own beeswax' totally about bees actual wax one).

And I do share things. Things that none of my friends care anything about. It's depressing really. So I just use it when I'm online, bored, and have nothing else to do.

I did "follow" you. I guess that's the word for it. :) Please don't post my name if you notice. It's not this one for a reason.

[PlainJain]

I'm on it. I love it. It's good for killing time if I have a few minutes but I mostly use it for art reference. Seeing other stuff really motivates me. I don't do the Thumbs Up/Down thing.

[Pai325]

I'm on it, too. It brings me sites I would never have found otherwise. I don't really do thumbs up or thumbs down. I use the site just to see new things. I guess Pinterest reminds me of it in some ways. You can see different pages but the StumbleUpon computer finds them, not other stumblers. Is there a category you have found particularly interesting?

[Sam Lowry]

I'm on it. I don't want to seem condescending but almost everything that is on the internet (since 1994), is probably something I've seen. Stumbleupon helps me find new things.

I don't often "thumbs up" things but I do "thumbs down" something if it is truly stupid (today I downed a site with a bunch of fake facts (like the 'mind your own beeswax' totally about bees actual wax one).

And I do share things. Things that none of my friends care anything about. It's depressing really. So I just use it when I'm online, bored, and have nothing else to do.

I did "follow" you. I guess that's the word for it. :) Please don't post my name if you notice. It's not this one for a reason.

Yeah, I figured probably a lot (or most people) had heard of it. I'd heard of it but never really checked it out, and I thought it was pretty cool.

I haven't thumbed down anything, but I would definitely thumb down a fake fact site like that, those are annoying.

I'm on it. I love it. It's good for killing time if I have a few minutes but I mostly use it for art reference. Seeing other stuff really motivates me. I don't do the Thumbs Up/Down thing.

It is good for art reference; I have found some cool art stuff through it. It does kill time, but I figure it's better for me to kill time on that or Pinterest, rather than games like Bloons Tower Defense 5 (http://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Tower-Defense/Play/Bloons-Tower-Defense-5.html) where I keep getting sucked it and stuck on the higher levels and trying to win and then all of a sudden way too much time has passed.

[Sudden Kestrel]

I used to use it a lot but stopped because it was giving me too many sites where people had just thumbed-up (thumb-upped?) products they liked that weren't really very interesting. Ooh, shoes made of alligator skin? How innovative! Their categories were way too broad for me. I used the thumbs down more often than the thumbs up. A function where I could, say, right-click on an item on a page and choose "Never take me to a page that includes this item/phrase/image again," now that would be golden!

I haven't used it for a long time, so maybe I should take another look. I do remember finding some cool stuff through SU. I'd have to start all over again, though; I have no idea what my user ID was.

[Rushgeekgirl]

I Stumble with my daughters mostly but we do it all the time and we come up with some interesting stuff. The thing is we don't really use the stumble button much. We just send funny stuff to each other with notes attached through the "share" feature.

[Rigamarole]

Use it all the time. Best way to find interesting stuff I never would have come across otherwise. Normally you don't find a lot of neat things when you don't know quite what it is you're looking for (especially on the 'net, where there's so much garbage to wade through). SU solves that problem.

[voltaire]

I used to use it a lot but stopped because it was giving me too many sites where people had just thumbed-up (thumb-upped?) products they liked that weren't really very interesting. Ooh, shoes made of alligator skin? How innovative! Their categories were way too broad for me. I used the thumbs down more often than the thumbs up. A function where I could, say, right-click on an item on a page and choose "Never take me to a page that includes this item/phrase/image again," now that would be golden!

I haven't used it for a long time, so maybe I should take another look. I do remember finding some cool stuff through SU. I'd have to start all over again, though; I have no idea what my user ID was.

Almost the same experience here. I was an early-adopter of SU years back, then sort of gradually drifted away from using it and started using digg, and then gradually drifted away from that to just lurking reddit.

[Rigamarole]

Almost the same experience here. I was an early-adopter of SU years back, then sort of gradually drifted away from using it and started using digg, and then gradually drifted away from that to just lurking reddit.

This post reads like an advertisement for the downward spiral of Internet Addiction.

[monstro]

I use it with an app on my Kindle. I don't have wireless access at work, and I like filling empty minutes with reading, so I'll load up my Kindle with cool internet articles that I find with StumbleUpon and save with another app called Read It Later. Keeps me from surfing the web on my work computer and being under the gaze of Big Brother.

[Filbert]

I go on every day or so at the moment, but refuse to register- it annoyed me that it asks for your gender in order to decide 'what you'll be interested in'. You can have 3 'stumbles' a day without registering, (and clearing cookies resets that), so not registering it stops me spending too long on it... In theory.

[Lasciel]

My husband stumbles. I swear it makes him seem like a sex-obsessed autistic person.

Here's his stumble feed: limited interest site, limited interest site, boobs, limited interest site, limited interest article, boobs, limited interest gif, boobs with kittens, limited interest site, full-frontal nudity (boobs+]), limited interest article, general science article, boobs, limited interest site, boobs, boobs+, the end of the internet.

I can see why he likes the internet. ;)

[interface2x]

I use it pretty often - generally entertaining as a time killer. I do thumbs-up stuff from time to time, but it's kind of rare. I don't think I've ever thumbs-downed stuff before, but I probably should based on some of the crap that comes up. I've been turned onto some pretty cool sites thanks to SU, though, so I like it a lot.

[Fair Rarity]

I've used it for years. It brought me to the SD, in fact.

I've not been happy with it lately. I think too many people have defected elsewhere. It's like I've seen everything in all my selected categories. Sometimes I think about signing up again with a new log in and starting over... like maybe there was something cool I didn't like way back when I first started stumbling, but would like now.

[Sam Lowry]

My husband stumbles. I swear it makes him seem like a sex-obsessed autistic person.

Here's his stumble feed: limited interest site, limited interest site, boobs, limited interest site, limited interest article, boobs, limited interest gif, boobs with kittens, limited interest site, full-frontal nudity (boobs+]), limited interest article, general science article, boobs, limited interest site, boobs, boobs+, the end of the internet.

I can see why he likes the internet. ;)

That is hilarious. Especially the "boobs with kittens."