Surfing Sites

With websites like YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, and the Google search engine it’s easy for other websites to fall behind. These power houses of the cyber world encounter countless visitors every day, as well as a faithful fan, myself. However, It is my mission to observe less popular sites (or at least according to me) in order to broaden my use of the Web and my time spent on it.

First the following websites fall into the three (well four) kinds of time that I spend on the Web; research (answers to my daily questions with inquiries like “cold remedies” or “Brad and Angelina + more babies”), leisure, and school work (and Facebook). School work and research are both satisfied by the search engine powers of Google. And Facebook time of course goes to the social networking site of Facebook. But left undeclared is my leisure time throughout the day and I make sure to spend it far away from sites like Bored.com and CollegeHumor.com. Nay, I choose to spend my time on the following four sites (judge if you will); DailyCandy.com, WatchTVsitcoms.com, and Overstock.com.

“DailyCandy” provides for my daily curiosity. Once signed up for the newsletter, daily installments of new and unheard of findings with clever and risqué articles alongside inform me of new inventions, say the strapless G-String (if that’s not too racy for our English class blog). DailyCandy also highlights new restaurants and boutiques, even travel depending on the issue you sign up for. The downfall of the daily emails is the loyalty, or the fact that it never ends leading to an overload of candy in your mailbox. The solution? Ditch the Daily emails and instead visit the site from time to time.

“WatchTVsitcoms” has sprung up recently at least in my circle of friends. While I’m still unsure of the legal rules guarding the website, it remains to show current movies and TV shows before they are released to DVD. Movies come in exceptional quality (for being bootlegs) and TV shows are easy to watch. It even boasts the ability to play music (and fast). Also atop the site’s toolbar sits the following features to blog, play games, view eBooks and up-to-date news.

Finally, I ask you to push aside the annoying commercials from Overstock and finally take a visit. If you aren’t intending on purchasing anything, then I encourage you to explore the site. Overstock.com provides great deals and I’m not sure why. Whatever the reason, it has become the norm for me to pass up fifty percent off sales only knowing that I will find better deals just a click away. Cruising through the site becomes interesting and sometimes almost a game, trying to find the biggest deals (fifty-two inch plasma TVs for under a thousand dollars) or most obscure items (wedding rings).

It is my hope that before you power the mainstream websites to look around and find some precious small and interesting website of your pleasing, maybe even entering my given choices into the address bar.