Why I Love the Sites I Love

I visit Facebook often, because it is a massive social-networking site whose content is created by my friends and acquaintances. This user-created site is more relevant and entertaining to me than the cold but polished content created by large companies on other web sites, since the creators of the content I see are personal friends. This is the ultimate appeal of social networking sites. I also use it for its intended purposes, most of the large social gatherings I attend I was invited to with Facebook. It has become a personal event calendar for me. Instead of being bored and reading things written by strangers, I can use time on the web to plan real-life get-togethers later. This pattern is reflected in the other sites I visit often, detailed below.
The other sites I visit the most often are intellicast.com, yelp.com,and google maps. I look at the weather so I know what to wear when I go outside, intellicasts' instantaneousness and the data it gathers from the National Weather Service is very useful. I like looking up reviews of food and coffee before I spend money on it on Yelp.com, and its user-generated aspect is useful to me. This is because lots of votes go together to make the overall rating of a place, as opposed to just one food writer who I may strongly disagree with in a traditional food review publication. I use Google Maps to find out how to quickly get to where I find on Yelp. I then use my web time to facetime advantage by inviting a friend out for tasty, cheap food or drink.
My other favorite sites are humorous ones and entertainment sites. I love humorous photo blogs, because they load quickly and laughing relieves the stress of my daily life better than anything else. I also love the funny but intelligent web comics xkcd.com and Catandgirl.com.
For doing homework or writing fiction, I like having a neverending stream of instrumental music to drown out ambient noise. For that reason I listen to the online radio station bassdrive.com and use the internet-based radio application last.fm, constantly. These are both very niche-oriented services, bassdrive only plays a specific type of electronic music called Drum and Bass and last.fm plays any microgenre you want to request, on demand.
Lastly, the main blog I visit is boingboing.net, so I can stay updated on a uniquely fascinating vein of science, art, and politics news. The internet allows an extremely niche source such as this to exist, it started as a zine but flourished as a blog, after thousands of people equally interested in technology, humor, art, human rights and the science fiction present found they all had extremely similar taste. I also view streaming video sometimes, but not often, since my connection generally is not strong enough.