Walk me through your morning internet browsing routine

You get up, brush your teeth, grab some coffee and sit down at your computer while your your brain reboots. Where do you go?

Me:
The Straight Dope, natch.
BoardGameGeek, I’m an avid board game fan, they also have new releases and reviews for iPad and PC.
Pocket Tactics, for iPad’s newest attempts at wargaming…they’re getting better.
Facebook just to see where and when the group is meeting and doing that night.
The Onion and Cracked just for kicks.
The HUffington Post just to see the scandal of the day.

Gmail, Google Maps, SDMB. Maybe facebook.

I also have some work-related intranet sites that I need for my work day.

Facebook.

Drudge. Don’t judge the Drudge…it’s good for quick summary of hot-button topics.

Weather.

Used to check e-mail, but that hits my phone now so I rarely do it from my computer.

LivingSocial/Groupon.

Dope is last. I have to get the brain in gear first.

First thing is check bank balances, although now I use the phone.

Check my call stats from previous day, sometimes I use the tab.

Catch up on Words with Friends, that’s on the tab.

Then it’s a toss up between here and Facebook. I seldom post on Facebook, I just look to see if anything important is happening. Quick browse through here to see if anything looks exciting.

Log in to work.

Come back here to browse.alternating with playing Words with Friends in between calls.

Play a few games of 5 Card Slingo.

All while watching TV.

I need to stop playing, the call center wants me to write a few articles for their blog. I don’t have to but they will pay me.

Email, SDMB, Reddit, Amazon free app of the day.

Email and Twitter are the 2 main ones. I dont do Facebook. It is surprising how Twitter has come to be a good catch-all for what is going on. I also check a news source either CNN, NY Times or BBC. On alot of days I check Pitchfork and the AV Club for music and movie stuff.

  • Wake up, roll out of bed
  • turn off backup iPhone alarm
  • check email on phone
  • Facebook on phone

Then, after getting ready for day and sitting down for breakfast:

  • LiveJournal newsfeed
  • 3 local newspaper websites
  • CNN
  • Websleuths missing forums
  • /r/wow

7 replies and no one has yet said “porn”? Liars!

In the morning? Mostly just the weather, plus e-mail if I have reason to suspect there might be something important in there, plus possibly one or two webcomics if I have time. Most of my webbing lately has been in the evenings.

It’s blocked at work. They sort of frown on that sort of thing here anyway.

SDMB
Facebook
Email
SDMB
Facebook
Email
Something with cats
SDMB
xkcd
Facebook
Email
SDMB
Facebook
Huffington Post
Email
SDMB

Pretty much my day, in a nutshell, as long as I’m home. I rarely go to other pages unless I’m following a link from here or Facebook. (I also have a stack of charting on my lap, and get some actual work done in there somewhere between page refreshes.)

Facebook
Irregular Webcomic!
Darths & Droids (Su/Tu/Th)
The Whiteboard (M/W/F, though there’s no guarantee it will have been updated that early)
Freefall (M/W/F)

xkcd
Woot!
APOD
Doonesbury
Dilbert
Local newspaper
Google News
reddit
SDMB

Gmail, Facebook, OpenDiary, MyEbay (All Selling), livejournal, Twitter, then settle in on SDMB for the day, (BBQ, MPSIMS, IMHO, GQ, CS) with the occasional check on BYB on Giraffe Boards :slight_smile:

And if I get really bored, Tumblr.

The Dope
Facebook
nationstates
Yahoo

Facebook
Words with Friends
The Pioneer Woman
Tasty Kitchen
Cafe Society (SDMB of course)
Bank account
Publisher Clearing House mindless and fruitless entry efforts (complete waste of time of course)
Fugly Horse of The Day
BC (Border Collie) boards
Pinterest
more facebook…

ledevoir.com (Le Devoir is a newspaper)
Radio-Canada.ca (also for news)
SDMB (IMHO and GQ only)
Dilbert
SchlockMercenary.com
XKCD.com on Monday, Wednesday, Friday
MeteoMedia.com (weather)
thedailywtf.com
DailyCuteBoy.com sometimes (it’s not porn, just some eye candy, and I often share them with my hubby if they also fit his tastes)
Facebook sometimes

ETA: Oh, and GMail, of course, both my private account and my office account.

Mail
XKCD
Cyanide and Happiness
Houston Chronicle Comic Strip page
In hurricane season, NHC and Wunderground
Facebook
Local newspaper
SDMB is an evening affair for me during the week. Not enough time in the morning.

-D/a

The internet works in the morning? Ignorance fought!

I lot of sites I never heard of. It’s a big Internet out there. Also surprised by the number of people on Facebook. That thing has really taken off