the wonder of the internet

The internet is so big.
Besides being true and sounding like a 1st grade sentence, this has some interesting implications too. In the same way a language vocabulary is big ... but mostly irrelevant, as people use only a tiny fraction for daily verbal communication ... in the same way, the Internet is used by people in a very limited way. So here's how I use the internet. Next thing ... ask yourself how do you use it. You can even spam my blog with comments about your usage.

1. I use it for email
My primary email used to be Yahoo, but then I switched to gmail. It's leaner, it's more usable, more searcheable, it checks itself. I still use yahoo but not so much - it's also blocked at work.

2. I use it to read news
My two news feeds are
http://news.bbc.co.uk
http://www.hotnews.ro
One being news about my current living place and adoptive country, the other news about my real country.

3. I use it to keep in touch with some people, social networks, groups, forums.
Social networks I use www.orkut.com and that's it.
I use groups.yahoo.com for groups to keep in touch with old friends, colleagues and other people I know.

4. I use it for instant messaging although I only talk to very very few people
I use yahoo messenger - main one.
And I use msn - secondarily.

5. In the category reference I use mainly
www.dictionary.com
www.wikipedia.org - fantastic and one of my favourites!

6. I use it to keep this lousy blog on blogspot

7. I use it to search for info
www.google.com - no other search engine
I also use groups.google.com to search for solutions to technical problems I have at work because if you have a problem, it's likely someone else fixed it before you somehow.
www.multimap.com - to find my way around London

And that's it.
What else would you recommend?