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Where do you spend your time online?

Thursday May 01, 2008

About 4-6 weeks ago I decided to plunge fully in everything that is social media: even more Facebook, del.icio.us, Twitter, started my own blog, started reading dozens of blogs, tried to get a collaboration effort launched within my team. What I realised is that the time spent online has changed quite significantly.

These days I spend a lot less time reading e-mail (apart from work e-mail of course, that continues to increase), and I spend most of my time on Facebook, LinkedIn, and reading all kinds of blogs. The site that I visit most often now is Google Reader, which allows me to follow the blogs, but also keeps me up to date about world events by following sites such as The Financial Times, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

E-mail used to be my primary source of contact with Friends (replaced by Facebook), and to be kept up to date via News Alerts (replaced by Google Reader), and I know find myself being surprised that I have not checked mail for a full day, which used to be unthinkable a few months ago.

So, I am curious if your online behaviour has changed as well. Where do you spend your time online?

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Posted at 07:37PM May 01, 2008 by Marc Dierens in Community
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twitter. fully addicted now.

Posted by pam on May 01, 2008 at 07:48 PM CEST #

I tend to concentrate on RSS feeds from sites I'm interested in, rather than reading the site itself. I use NetNewsWire on Mac, and it allows me to work and check what's new when it's new, for example. I see each Sun blog as it's posted, for example, and can quickly see the subject and a summary. I feed the feeds much less draining on my time. I know quite a few people who send a helluva lot more time in an RSS reader than they do a browser. The sheer volume of information has dictated a new approach for them (and me).