Of course, I mean other than e-mail, Hubski or reddit. I often end up browsing Serious Eats, craigslist and EDC. Where do you end up?
NPR, the Economist, The Atlantic and the New Yorker are frequent stops. Otherwise, I really do spend most of my time here. I also visit FB to converse with family and friends that aren't nearby and who prefer to use FB. I visit G+ too, mostly for "hangouts". Not too big on twitter.
The person who showed me around Google, was actually head of Hangouts! He asked me for feedback, probably just as a gesture, but I really couldn't think of much. Free, smooth, friendly group video chats! As a whole, I lovelovelove google+. The only thing I could really say, was how it didn't feel too optimized on mobile, but that's to be expected considering the bandwidth capabilities of a phone.
Philpapers and Jstor, for my philosophy fix. Ultimate Guitar and 911tabs for my guitar music! Amazon. AMAZON. Amazon. Need I say more? I haven't gone to a department store, target, walmart, etc. in about a year now. Amazon Prime is a GODSEND. Whenever I consider a bigger (above $100) purchase, I scour the entire web for reviews. There are some smaller blogs I love.. there's more too but I'm too tired to think of any.
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Hubski, comp.lang.lisp, rec.games.roguelike.*, MathOverflow, StackOverflow, Amazon, Coursera, Violent Playground, bandcamp, my alma mater's library's site for papers that live behind paywalls. Through RSS, but rarely directly: I Die: You Die, 3AM Magazine, mathblogging.org, Boole's Rings, ReGen, Chain D.L.K., Brutal Resonance, CounterPunch, Leiter Reports, Phoronix, HN, reddit
I pull up Facebook and Gmail every time I open a browser (dramatic embellishment to better answer your question; I don't ever close my browser). Next I bring up the game site I help administrate, nmaps.net. Then a brief stop at reddit, a more lengthy browse of hubski, and a general scan of CNN, Economist, NYT, the Wonkblog, etc. Usually by that time I've been listening to music for at least 20 minutes and have heard or seen something that took me to what.cd or allmusic.
Kind of an unrelated question. Do you like what.cd? I've heard things about it but don't actually know someone who uses it. Is it worth it?
I recently changed my surfing habits while trying to build my online social presence (in preparation for job searching). I've started using Newsblur to curate all the obscure development blogs and G+/App.net for all things social.
Basically my strategy is to make myself google-able and try and inject myself into communities where developers are likely to be. For a social network I chose Google+ because that seems to be the one chosen most by developers, or at least has a large percentage of developers as its userbase. For day-to-day, inane twittery I decided to start building up an App.net profile as I would like to see APN succeed (and again, high concentration of developers). I also started using github as much as I can so it can act as a sort of portfolio. And to actually put out content so I'm not just treading water in these networks I started a blog. I've also started following the RSS feeds of the blogs/sites which I find useful posts from and try to discuss interesting new posts in these networks (such as G+'s communities hub).
Not quite sure, as I've started it rather recently - motivated by my desire to get out of school and into the industry. It's been a pretty good motivator, though, to get working on code I can be proud of. That's mostly what I've been focused on lately, since I think even with amazing social networking skills if you don't have the work to back it up it's all just fluff.
FB, Reddit, Hubski, any number of music sites (P4K, Stereogum, BPM, etc.)
my website, reddit, facebook, wikipedia, and wherever my curious google searches take me