about:me is a Firefox add-on that "provides a fun way to see personalized patterns in browser usage, including trends in browsing history and download activity". Some of you fellow nerds might notice that the name is a clever play on the about: URI scheme used in many web browsers.
I installed this add-on a few months ago, but rarely remember about it. Of course, when you run out of ways to procrastinate instead of writing that philosophy paper, you remember all sorts of neat things that "deserve" to be blogged about.
So what truths has about:me revealed about my surfing habits on my main home computer? You can see the results directly below (click to enlarge):
For one, I am in denial about how much I use Facebook. It seems that I can't go around anymore saying condescendingly, "Oh, no. I *only* get on Facebook whenever someone does something on my wall or sends me a message." The same seems to go for OkCupid, though to a far lesser extent.
Other than that, the sites listed are for the most part what I would expect. Google (and its various subdomains), Wikipedia, GMail (which is broken out from Google for some reason), Last.fm (because I obsessively want to view the charts about my recently listened music), and ESPN Soccernet are all mainstays in my Internet routine. I'm a little surprised to see CNET, YouTube, and Blogger on there - I definitely use those sites fairly frequently, but I don't feel like I'm on them *that* often. The one notable absence, though, is Yahoo!. I feel like a check my Y!Mail often enough for it to beat out a few of the sites listed.
In addition to the sites I browse, the times at which I browse are also interesting, though there are no real surprises there. I apparently hit the web hard sometime around 9 PM after a long day of doing whatever I do in the "real" world. It's not unusual for me to still be surfing up until 1, or even 2, in the morning. I'm guessing that the daytime surfing is mostly from weekend activities, when I'm not at work/school/soccer. The graph also confirms that the period between about 4 and 7 AM pretty much does not exist to me.
So there you have it...a little insight into Obi. But because it's somehow tech related, that's probably about the most you're gonna get here.
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You are braver than me posting your Internet useage. I don't think I could do it. Seriously, nobody needs to know how much time I spend on icanhascheeseburger.com.
ReplyDeletehaha! you're braver than me too, i am in denial about my facebook addiction, my aimless time on twitter late at night and my borderline obsessive email checking lol. that's cool you can track it like that tho, for the fellow brave souls;).
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