# Walk me through your morning internet browsing routine **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253 "2012-10-19T18:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/21 "2012-10-21T01:08:54Z")
Check email. Facebook. CraigsList to flag puppies for sale. Fallen Leaves Model Horse forum. Cute Overlad/Zooborns. SDMB. Fugly Horse of the Day. > **[Journal – Where Celebrity News, Style, and Pop Culture Meet](https://www.myjournal.com)** > > Get the hottest news and stories ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/22 "2012-10-21T01:21:07Z")
Most weekday mornings I don’t have enough time to do much, as I have a train to catch and I tend to sleep in a lot because my commute is so long and my work hours too damned early! Anyway… **Email** - Usually none. It seems to be the least popular method of communication amongst my friends, which is a shame as it’s my preferred. **Twitter** - Overnight there can be hundreds to catch up on, though weekends only about 60 - 80. It’s a good place to gauge the zeitgeist of the day, and any world events. **SDMB** - Just a quick check to see if I’ve been responded to. **News** - I check my local paper’s website for the bigger news. And a few other things I refuse to detail on the grounds that they may incriminate me. Though not really. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/23 "2012-10-21T01:45:59Z")
Up anywhere between 6 and 7. Make coffee. Get juice. Open SDMB and email. Read emails(10 overnight), ban spammers(1-4), get first mug of coffee. Read SDMB new posts overnight. Ban another 2-4 spammers in forums other than GQ(my forum). Read Google news. Get second mug of coffee. Look at weatherunderground for Akron, OH. Check bank balance, check credit card balance. Read linguist websites. Read fishing forum on Hatteras island. Read Giraffe Board. Shower, come back and refresh emails. Go to work. ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/24 "2012-10-21T01:51:34Z")
> **[The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/)** > > The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news > **[Gawker](https://www.gawker.com)** > > Gawker. It's a website on the internet. sdmb > **[Salon Homepage](https://www.salon.com/)** > > Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/25 "2012-10-21T02:14:46Z")
Ravelry Ravelry Ravelry Straight Dope Ravelry e-mail library/fan fiction/Hulu (Only if it’s a day when I can sit and fritter for a while, rather than a day when I must go to work soon). (There are several message boards within Ravelry which I feel a need to be up to date on. Additional information is on a need to know basis, and if you needed to know, you’d know my rav name already). ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/26 "2012-10-21T03:37:14Z")
Facebook News The dope Speak without interuption ( great writers site) Catapult message board stickbow Paleo planet Primitive archer Web Browsing intermittenly all day while I take short but frequent breaks from projects. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/27 "2012-10-21T04:42:20Z")
First I read the incident log from my local police dispatch center to see if I was arrested or died yesterday, or if anything else interesting happened in the county. Then I take the daily 5 question quiz at [mentalfloss.com](http://mentalfloss.com) to see if I can beat the average, I usually can. [http://www.mentalfloss.com/](http://www.mentalfloss.com/) I look at the Astronomy Picture of the day. [http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html](http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) In no particular order I will check the news at 2 local TV stations, Google News, CNN, ABC, Drudge, Wired. And read Cracked. I used to read The Onion but their web site has become an almost unreadable piece of shit so I deleted it from Favorites. Then I will see if any of the youngsters at my favorite car nut page need any help. [LS1TECH - Camaro and Firebird Forum Discussion](http://ls1tech.com/forums/) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/28 "2012-10-21T05:19:00Z")
10:00 Wake up (assuming I got any sleep to begin with). Begin brain boot sequence. 11:30 Sit up, get out of bed. Continue brain boot sequence. 11:45 Sit at computer. Power up (the computer). Begin computer boot sequence. 11:46 Complete computer boot sequence. (This is Linux.) Continue brain boot sequence. 11:50 Fire up Firefox. Check e-mail. Continue brain boot sequence. 11:52 Click on StraightDope bookmark. Continue brain boot sequence. Start reading ATMB. 12:42 Finish reading ATMB. Begin reading GQ. Continue brain boot sequence. 17:42 Finish reading GQ. Begin reading IMHO. Continue brain boot sequence. 17:45 Fuck this shit, I’m just wasting my life. Get dressed, go hang out in dog park for a while. 19:45 Come home from dog park. Some brain processes now functional. Realize I’m hungry. 19:50 Eat an orange or a cold hot dog or something. Functional brain processes crash. 20:00 Begin brain re-boot sequence. Fire up computer, Firefox, StraightDope. 20:10 One more time: Start reading ATMB again. Continue brain re-boot sequence. 20:50 Finish reading ATMB. Begin reading GQ again. Continue brain re-boot sequence. 23:50 Finish reading GQ again. Begin reading IMHO again. Continue brain re-boot sequence. 02:30 Finish reading IMHO. Some brain processes now functional. Realize I’m hungry. 02:30 Functional brain processes crash. Begin reading MPSIMS. Brain boot attempts abandoned. 04:50 Finish reading MPSIMS. 04:59 Power down brain. Quit Firefox. Power down computer (if I remember). 05:00 Go to bed. 05:00-10:00 or 11:00 or 12:00 or whatever: Maybe get a little sleep during this time. Maybe not. As for the OP: Who said anything about brushing teeth? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/29 "2012-10-21T05:32:52Z")
Luann and Frazz in comics Facebook Mercury News WoW guild website 1 WoW guild website 2 Email If a weekday, James Lileks’s Bleat SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Teddy\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Teddy\_Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddy_Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/30 "2012-10-21T05:35:22Z")
When I wake up, I have just enough time to tend to the wikis I administrate. If I have more time, I just surf for opinions on some random controversial topic. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/31 "2012-10-21T05:38:35Z")
I don’t really have a particular order. I’ll usually check my e-mail, then float around between the SDMB and reddit, then maybe check Cracked. By then I’ll probably have found something to settle on for a while. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/32 "2012-10-21T12:22:48Z")
I get out of bed, grab the phone, into the bathroom \*\*Schlock Mercenary \*\* Pee, clean teeth, shower … Everything else can wait till later. Si ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/33 "2012-10-21T13:04:39Z")
Being ‘retired’, I have a lot of time to kill in the morning! I look at Salon, Slate, IMDB (to read about last night’s show on the message boards), my local paper, several comic strips, quote for the day, Saint of the day, Oceangram, several recipe sites to see the offering for the day, Freekibble, Animal Rescue Site, a couple of advice sites where you can respond to a writer’s letter. Straight Dope. Blind Gossip. Some sites I read once a week - Village Voice, NYT book reviews. the Comics Curmudgeon. Read my e-mails, look at Etsy, read my horoscope, then it’s time for Facebook. Then I look at the time, and realize it’s time to close the lid on this thing until…the evening! ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/34 "2012-10-21T14:13:06Z")
Work days: Just my university Gmail. My routine used to be: Facebook University Gmail CNN Indianapolis Star The Indianapolis Star has gone to a limited number of articles a month, so I stopped bothering with it in any form. I’m sure I could bypass it, but it’s not worth the effort. Facebook and CNN are now checked via phone apps before I even lift my head off the pillow (which is also when I respond to missed texts). If I have a message on Facebook that requires more than a sentence or two, I do it at the computer while checking my mail. Other sites remain for when I get off of work, or at-work browsing on the phone’s browser. Off days: Facebook (tab remains open so I can see if I get any notifications) University Gmail CNN BBC News SDMB Kongregate (free games site) Cracked ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/35 "2012-10-21T16:56:56Z")
Gmail CNN (quick glance to make sure the world is intact) local newspaper website (quick glance) [Dlisted](http://dlisted.com/) for all my awesome celebrity gossip needs (nobody is better at it than that bitchy guy) Facebook ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/36 "2012-10-21T17:05:07Z")
In no particular order: Facebook SDMB Politico Detroit Free Press Five Thirty-Eight NBC News CNN Local Patch site Yahoo mail Work mail > **[newsweek](https://www.tumblr.com/paulryangosling)** > > Follow @paulryangosling and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in! ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/37 "2012-10-21T17:10:30Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [PaulRyanGosling.tumblr.com](http://PaulRyanGosling.tumblr.com) Just checked this out, hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/38 "2012-10-22T13:51:40Z")
At home, while I eat breakfast: NYTimes, quick scan for headlines and maybe an article Facebook for about 5 minutes. At work: Company intranet site NYTimes The Dope Imgur ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/39 "2012-10-22T14:39:50Z")
Email (personal, work, SDMB) Facebook, including WWF and Lexulous moves Twitter Bitly for stats on activity on links I’m promoting SDMB for my own browse – have already checked post reports in my email ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253/40 "2012-10-22T23:21:09Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Just checked this out, hilarious! Thanks! I actually run it. Amazing the messages people send me in response to the pics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walk-me-through-your-morning-internet-browsing-routine/638253.md?page=3)