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- diggerado, on 11/04/2009, -1/+176I'm confused. Are people really surprised that a lot of people go to Walmart or their ISP's homepage?
- HotDogWater, on 11/04/2009, -7/+156this list sucks
- Denex, on 11/04/2009, -3/+134WTF is Ning?
- RagingReid, on 11/04/2009, -2/+123I have a LinkedIn account and have no idea why.
- mywhitenoise, on 11/04/2009, -3/+86I know, Ive never heard of Wal-Mart.
- LSCanaan, on 11/04/2009, -4/+81Most of this sites get their traffic because of unwanted publicity and/or spam.
- lycaon824, on 11/04/2009, -6/+60Stupid list. Comedy Central should be on it. You can get all their stuff from Hulu and YouTube.
- Johnnyjm, on 11/04/2009, -8/+59The 1 Most Retarded Show that No One Watches: Tosh.0
- jordan314, on 11/04/2009, -7/+54Dugg for truth: "There are only three ways to get a job: word of mouth, nepotism and Craigslist."
- rotundo, on 11/04/2009, -2/+47None of these are very surprising -- if you're surprised you just don't know much about the internet as a whole. I guess the list is supposed to be funny? It just makes me think that the author lives in a very insular little world.
- battmutler, on 11/04/2009, -2/+41None of these are particularly surprising to me. I don't get it.
- OmNomNomBACON, on 11/04/2009, -8/+45I use MLB.com and eHow occasionally, but WTF are these other sites?
- Xegyn, on 11/04/2009, -3/+40MLB.com lets you stream the games live on your computer and/or iPhone so it's not exactly the same as looking up scores on other sites.
- Hetman, on 11/04/2009, -2/+38MLB.com makes sense. If you just were to type in a random mlb team. The first site will be MLB. The same can be said about if I just type in Cubs.com I go striaght to the mlb cubs home page. Take into consideration the length of the season and scouting reports and pre season info. It is easy to see why it is so popular.
- MrBenC, on 11/04/2009, -1/+36its like a kwik-e-mart but they specialize in walls. just walls.
- Themiskan, on 11/05/2009, -3/+34It is surprising anyone with comcast can even get to their ISP's website.
- MtheoryX, on 11/05/2009, -0/+30Your password is hunter2
- amauldin71, on 11/04/2009, -4/+34Myspace.
- indyGuy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+24I've had an account for years. Then three days ago, I got a call from a headhunter who found me on LinkedIn. Guess I'm going to keep my profile current.
shrug - Luciapalooza, on 11/04/2009, -4/+27I'm guilty of still using mapquest.
- Pxtl, on 11/04/2009, -3/+26eHow is one of those sites that nobody _chooses_ to go to, but it always somehow ends up on the top of your google searches for any given problem... usually above the 1st-party answers.
Suspicious....
And I still use my LJ account - it's how I keep in touch with a group of old buddies. We're slowly moving to Twitter though. My melodramatic highschool phase happened on Scribble.Nu, though, not LJ, so I never got the "LJ whiny emo poetry" thing. I suspect a lot of those social networks that are still popular are sticking for the same reason - all their friends are still using it.
And honestly, even though Mapquest is utterly fugly compared to Google Maps, I've been switching back to it simply because when Google Maps fails, it fails utterly gracelessly. Like "give me completely inaccurate directions and don't warn me that they're unreliable". When the final direction ends nowhere near the destination, something has gone really wrong. - Dinosquid, on 11/05/2009, -1/+23This article sucks. All of those websites are very believable. Yes, people go to MLB.com to check schedules and scores. Yes, people go to their ISP when they want to pay a bill, or find contact info, or whatever. Yes, people go on Walmart.com and Adultfriendfinder.com PROOOOBABLY because of aggressive ad marketing. If the ads didn't work, you wouldn't see them everywhere. This is some straight-up Andy Runey boring BS right here.
- zip000, on 11/04/2009, -0/+20I'd "lmgtfy" but I'm too lazy for that.
It's basically a way of setting up closed social networks devoted to specific subjects or groups. I can see it being useful, but haven't quite found the utility for me personally yet. - zip000, on 11/04/2009, -0/+19I got one in grad school because a professor suggested that I should...about a year later, that professor was still my only contact there.
I don't even remember my login info at this point. - TekTrixter, on 11/05/2009, -0/+19Your password is all stars?
- Myonosken, on 11/05/2009, -2/+18Oh hey Captain Serious.
- acardwell3, on 11/05/2009, -1/+16http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+the+*****+is+Ning%3F
- Idiggapony, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15Wait, are you trying to tell me that there AREN'T over two hundred hot nineteen-year-old women in my town who are bored and horny, and want to send me naked pictures of themselves, and then come over to my house and have sex with me for free, just because they're so bored and horny?
Oh well, now I gotta think of something else to do next weekend. Is it too late to go apple picking? - anthropodeus, on 11/05/2009, -1/+16it must be a really lame site. they even spelled "wall" wrong!
- chadsmith729, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14Hmm, all I see is ******* can you try giving that again to me?
- WriterSD, on 11/04/2009, -1/+15I know a lot of professionals who have LinkedIn accounts. LinkedIn is a more "professional" way to social network with people for purely business reasons than Facebook.
With that said, I don't interact with friends on LinkedIn if we're connected on Facebook already. Only business contacts. - Alli3388, on 11/05/2009, -0/+12That list is retarded. MLB.com and Walmart seem like pretty obvious sites that a lot of people go to. Also, only the naive would be surprised that the swinging friends finder sight is that popular.
- Bkkgnar, on 11/04/2009, -0/+11The more you know...
- slappymode, on 11/04/2009, -0/+11The sites for every individual baseball team are subdomains of mlb.com, so if you go to redsox.com or yankees.com for instance, you go to mlb.com. Not to mention that it's actually a really good source of baseball news similar to espn.com, and often breaks baseball-related stories (especially valuable to fantasy baseball players.)
- anthropodeus, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10dugg for the link, "HEY YO BIG SCOOB!!!!WHAT THE ***** HAVE YOU DONE??? - Tech N9ne"
- MrBenC, on 11/04/2009, -1/+11aff is used regularly by many because the users have perfected a way to find and advertise inexpensive, legit hookers all around the nation in a manner that aff either hasn't figured out exists yet or is just plain ignoring because they know if they cracked down on it they would lose 99% of their user base.
it goes like this:
you find a chick you want to bang on aff and send her a message. she sends back a flirty message and at the bottom of it is a 7-10 letter "code". dial those letters into your phone and viola! you have a date. and you are out $20-$200 bucks depending on what the male who answers her apartment door tells you to dish out.
oh whoops, did i just say that all out loud?
some people stop using it after a week or two because they can't find anything EXCEPT hookers, and naked pictures of their friends who also signed up at one point and may not even be using the site anymore. - TotalHalibut, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9Mapquest is fine. So some people don't use Googlemaps, big deal. What's wrong with having a choice?
- dolemite5005, on 11/05/2009, -1/+10Adult Friend Finder: just like the article said; they have tons of ads everywhere on the net, especially on porn sites. Lots of those ads get clicked which brings in lots of traffic.
MLB: Every team's site is a subdomain of mlb.com. I may never go to mlb.com but whenever I want info for the Seattle Mariners I go to mariners.com which redirects to seattle.mariners.mlb.com
eHow: Blame this on Google. Anytime I type a "how do I" type search query one of the top results is some junk from eHow.
Walmart: How's this hard to believe? I can't believe millions and millions of people even shop in their stores yet they do... I'm guessing those same people buy from their website.
Comcast: If you have comcast as an ISP, any time you go to a domain that doesn't exist you're redirected to a search page on comcast.com.
Mapquest: Old people.
LinkedIn: I thought anyone with an office job had an account on here?
No clue about Livejournal or Ning.
Oh and Alexa rankings are pretty much meaningless and are easy to game. - HonoredMule, on 11/05/2009, -1/+9Comedy Central is viewable in Canada.
- 3tcp, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8The main reason why mlb.com is popular is because fans can vote for players in the all star game. At the beginning of summer all over the country, people are sitting around refreshing the webpage and setting up bot voters to get their favorite players into the game. The number of hits from this far exceeds anything the number of people who go there for news.
- Sewermutt, on 11/05/2009, -4/+10They probably just misspelled "bing". The B is right beside the N.
- fartingbob, on 11/05/2009, -3/+8I was unemployed for the first 16 years of my life, your childhood must have sucked.
- mikepictor, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6"I like MapQuest's interface better than Google Maps"
I think my brain shut down as I read that. - R3publican, on 11/05/2009, -2/+7I still use the term "mapquest it", but what I mean is google/local.live map it.
- Flannigus, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5How is Walmart.com a suprise?
- stk198323, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5With my isp there was two ways:
1- Install that software and it will do all you need by itself including configuring your router.
2- Put those username and password on your router and forget our software.
The first one is for people with no understanding how there internet works and the other one is for people that know what they are doing. I prefer this then only option 2 and then when my parents in law would get the internet they would call me every single day because it doesn't work like supposed... oh wait, they already do that anyways! - secrity, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4I was in one of those years ago when I visited South Carolina; the only other stores in the town were a bait shop, a Quick Store, and a Dollar Store. It was the only grocery store, drug store, and gas station within several miles.
- mkriss5681, on 11/04/2009, -1/+5No *****. Comcast runs that ***** software that hijacks your browser (if your stupid enough to use IE and stupid enough to let a Comcast tech install that ***** CD).
- rolf, on 11/04/2009, -1/+5I like amazon, but I also use walmart. Amazon uses a lot of 3rd party vendors for some stuff and I don't always like buying off of them if they have a less than great rating and their prices aren't always that low anyway. With walmart, if you don't like the item, you can always return it to the next walmart (Costco does same IIRC) and if the item is big, just have them ship it to the closest store to save some money.
Just bought 2 usb hubs from their site because I hate buying unreturnable electronics (but for some reason, the local walmarts don't have usb hubs). - arthursk, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5Can we please ban tosh.0 from the internet?
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