Use of internets and stuffs

I, like many internet users, don't spend a great deal of time searching around for new and exiting things to pop up on the web. When I load up Firefox, my internet browser, the first page is the Llama Lords homepage. Llama Lords is a gaming clan I am part of, it started a few years ago. Really, it was a bunch of people who all lived around Littleport and Ely who were just gaming together, then it got slightly more mainstream as we started playing bigger games. We started to recruit people from all over the world and became quite close with several of them. Occasionally we would recruit someone and find out later that they were quite local and we met up and made friends we would otherwise never have known. We have had several members from different countries come over to meet us and we have had a couple of gatherings with people form all over the place. We were mainly playing CS:S (Counter Strike: Source), and we had a few servers and a clan of a couple hundred people. I loved this, if you contributed to server costs we were granted admin powers on our servers to change settings and control who comes on the server to play. We then evolved through to different games like Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead. These never worked quite as well, and as people stopped playing as much due to other commitments - some people went off to get married, some went to uni, others just gave up - the income lowered and we couldn't afford the servers. I still play with the remainder of the clan, but it's not as big as it used to be and a lot of people have just given up, but we keep the website and the Forum up and running as they are easy to maintain.

After checking that, I slide over to Hotmail, so I can check my e-mails. This generally doesn't take very long so my next move is straight over to FaceBook. In and of itself, FaceBook is quite dull. I don't add people I don't know, so I dopn't use it to make new friends, I rarely talk to people on there I DO know, because I either talk to them every day or just have nothign to say to them. I use FaceBook because everyone else does and I have nothing better to do. I use it to update my status' which is rarely anything important and I use a ton of 'Apps'. As with millions of other FaceBook users, I have my own farm, courtesy of FarmVille. I have a small patch of grass, which I can pretend I am growing assorted crops and raising animals and stuff. FarmVille is one of the most popular online games ever apparently, and for the life of me I can't think why. I guess there are some people like me that just don't have anything better to do, but I certainly wouldn't go on the game to do something fun. It's free, which is probably one reason, but if you want the super cool and interesting animals or decorations or features, you have to pay REAL MONEY to get GAME MONEY to buy stuff on the game. I also have a restaurant, a fish tank, a weird pet house thing and assorted other useless features of the site. The restaurant one at least has some point towards it. At a stretch, you have to try and get more money and points than your friends, but you can trade ingredients with your friends to improve the quality of your dishes. The more you think about these games, the more sad they seem. There are other games, however that you don't even get to customize or change in the least. You just click on different buttons and nothing really happens but you get experience and money. These games are even more dull as they aren't even particularly visually interesting.

Once i've completed this trivial routine of signing into things and wasting time playing these ridiculous games, I sometimes wander over to Reddit or fmylife.com. Reddit is basically a site where people post things and you can up-vote or down-vote them depending how much you like it. If something gets up-voted, more people are likely to see it, if it gets downvote nobody will ever see it. Fmylife.com is a site where people tell short stories about things that have gone wrong in their lives. It is a surprisingly up-beat site, and the things are usually quite humorous that are liely to make people laugh. A sort of schadenfreude type thing going on. Someone else getting pleasure from a strangers pain. I check Twitter, but I don't follow people and don't care for it that much.

That's basically all I use the internet for.