Computer/Internet Usage

[happyfilmluvguy]

I'm strictly speaking on your own time, not for business, hobby or financial reasons.

Do you find yourself staring blankly into the screen, almost mindless?

Do you tend to step away from the computer when you feel you are spending too much time on it?

Does time pass by quickly and after a couple of hours, you finally realize you had just spent a full 3 hours on your computer?

Do you try to do other things but find yourself slowly making your way
back to the computer?

When you are away from home, at a certain moment when you need information do you wish you had a computer for usage or try to find one?

Do you regularly or constantly check your email or instant messenger, at home, at a friends/relatives house, or on your internet accessible cell phone?

What do you generally do on the computer?

 

[Fletch]

As often as you see me here in the Fedora Lounge. That is how often I use the Internet Computer.

Fletch (standing at center) keys in yet another timely posting.

 

[pretty faythe]

I'm on here way to much. I guess I should start working my way back to reality, but then again I get to much reality at work.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

My name is Dixon, and I'm a webaholic.

Hello Dixon!

Yep! I'm an unabashed internet junkie - in fact I never even log off of the FL, I'm on it so much. Between eBay, FL, Google, my blogs, and a few sites that shall remain nameless (hey... isn't that what the internet is for, anyway?!)

I still remember being introduced to the internet and thinking, "Wow! This is like having a vertual encyclopedia at my fingertips!" That was about ten years ago - I haven't stopped since. My hard drive is encumbered with worthless downloads and photos and I've got stacks of DVR's with so much stuff on them I can't find anything without looking through them all.

It's insane, I tell ya! (Well, at least virtually insane!)

 

[olive bleu]

I've actually only had a computer at home for 2 years, but Let me tell you, I make up for lost time..

I LOVE my computer, I adore it..if I could write a poem to it, I would.If I didn't have to feed my children and do the occasional load of laundry, you couldn't get me off it.

Other than the FL, which I never log off of, I love to surf the net. The information that is available to me at a key stroke, just boggles my mind.

Like Dixon, I have piles of stuff that I have found that i can't get rid of.. I have become a VIRTUAL PACKRAT.I actually have a folder that is entitled "stuff I want to read someday", it;s huge, but I can't get around to reading any of it, because I can't stop searching for new stuff!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I surf the net all day at work. For 8 hours straight I stare into Internet land. I'm on the FL about 75% of that time

When I get home I don't even want to go near a computer.

 

[olive bleu]

oh, see...I work in front of a computer 10 hours a day,and I still am trying to bribe my kids into giving up the seat

 

[LizzieMaine]

My best friend and I keep in contact via AIM -- she's deaf, and doesn't have a phone, so the computer is a lifeline for her. We talk at least once a day, for at least a couple of hours at a time, and on the rare evening that I'm not working at the theatre we'll chat again in the evening. I spend a lot of time during the day online doing research for writing projects, and will pop in on the Lounge for variety.

I am also addicted to watching pandas via Panda Cams. There's something so utterly tranquilizing about watching a chubby vegetarian bear sitting in a tree....

 

[Elaina]

I work at home so often I'm doing both personal and business. So there's not one for that[huh]

 

[Quigley Brown]

Once warm weather shows up I won't be spending so much time on my computer. But when is that warm weather going to show up???

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I'm on the computer way too much. I need a job! Maybe I could find a job on the computer, so I never have to leave my favorite place The Fedora Lounge!

 

[Lady Day]

My computer is my DVD player, my tv (I dont own one) my stereo, my work station, my well, everything.

I love you compuutter

LD

 

[CharlieH.]

When I don't go to school, I use my computing apparatus only once a day.... that is, all day long. Mostly as a jukebox.

 

[Fletch]

I'm on the computer way too much. I need a job! Maybe I could find a job on the computer, so I never have to leave my favorite place The Fedora Lounge!

See, that's my problem. My day job is using Teh Internets Computer. I look in here an average of once a half hour even when there's something needing doing. (Especially, some days.)

 

[pigeon toe]

I spend a lot of time on the internet, mostly because I don't like the TV except for one or two shows. And it's a good way to relax after class.

I check it once in the morning, usually just to wake me up a bit and check the weather, and then I spend a few hours on it at night, off and on. I'll often look at the computer for a few minutes at a time and then walk away and do something else. I'm the queen of getting distracted!

 

[Chanfan]

I'm strictly speaking on your own time, not for business, hobby or financial reasons.

Ooops, messed up my vote, then. Actually, I guess it depends - I think of computing as a hobby, so technically, that would be zero time. I answered the top tier, as I spend a lot of time on it at work for work, at work doing things like, well, posting here, at home on hobbies (gaming, posting here, etc.).

While I do spend all day on computers, that's work, and home computer time is mostly play time.

Hmm, I guess with my work, if you asked how much time to you spend on other people's computers, it would still be daily.

 

[Leading Edge]

Before FL & after FL

Before I found the Fedora Lounge:
My homepage was My Netscape with the most exciting section of it being the "Technology News". My only personal use of the computer was to buy things. (digression:Isn't it interesting that with all the time-saving conveniences of the post industrial age, we never seem have to time to do proper shopping at brick-and-mortars with knowledgeable civil clerks, if such exist, anymore?)

fftopic: totally, but just by-the-by, I recently asked a young male clerk to fetch the quart container of a product for me and, you guessed it, he brought down the pint (it wasn't even :beer: ). What troubled me was that it was not even remotely significant to him that he did not know the difference!

As I was saying, my internet shopping process included tracking shipments and checking out the "sales" of my favorite vendors. Very mundane and pedestrian stuff. Professionally, however, I did take my high school out of the cut-and-paste era of creating yearbooks and digitized the whole process (yes, I even tried to digitize the venerable Senior Portrait - and failed, BUT at they were scanned into the computer for placement. So that counts ) from which I acquired a respectful admiration of the Adobe Suite, a passionate appreciation of the graphic arts, and an addiction to the total immersion derived from desk-top publishing. Very occasionally, I used the computer to connect with K-12 and high school sites for professional reasons, but not often or with enthusiasm. Call this time of computer usage: DULL & INFREQUENT

After I found the Fedora Lounge:
My home(page) is Fedora Lounge. People like John Covino transformed my hobby-like interest in fountain pens heretofore fueled by only by studies of Fahrney's and Colorado Pen Company catalogues to an educated obsession requiring massive (for me) acquisitions through eBay which necessitated the purchase of a pen case and three happy hours spent caring for the ones that were "in use" but had not been used for weeks. (Egypt! Sure beat the heck out of "when in the course of human events" which was my dipped pen writing test.)
My hats which were heretofore stored and handled any which way are also in a better state of care with two hat brushes (one for the dark and one for the light), a hat jack (who knew!), and hat stand (pics are only a digital camera away), AND, thanks to Door and others, three new-to-me hats on the way. Mark Alan even had me wanting to craft hats with his photojournalism of the process! Thanks to RBH, I aspire to one day join the Brotherhood of the Thin Ribbon - if they'll let a sista' in, that is! There are so many, many, many bookmarks that exist solely because of Fedora Lounge recommendations or referrals. Not only that, I actually have a folder in my Bookmarks named "Fedora Lounge Threads." Thanks to Scotrace, I am buying better books such as Lizzie Maine's book on Amos and Andy. In short, I am on the computer learning more about what I care about and enjoying the company of those I meet at Fedora Lounge.

And yes, what to me were only a few minutes in fact turn out to be hours. Yes also to the next three questions after that one, Happyfilmluvguy.
Your first two, however, not really. It's the company that keeps me jacked in, don' ya know? :cheers1:

 

[lindylady]

On my own time, I'm on the computer maybe once or twice a week, checking email, shopping, and on the Fedora Lounge. If I'm in school, then I use the computer throughout the day to take class notes, research, or surf the net when I'm bored (which is quite often these days because I'm about to graduate and too restless to pay attention in class ).

 

[TheKitschGoth]

My computer is my DVD player, my tv (I dont own one) my stereo, my work station, my well, everything.

I love you compuutter

LD

Yep, me too.

It's the first thing I go to in the morning, and last thing at night. Sad, I know lol

 

[scotrace]

The title of this thread is chillingly like the subject line of the memo I dread getting from my boss someday.