Internet Viewing Hits 4

Here's another look at what I've been looking at online. For the last ninety days:

And here's just the last thirty days:

Movies Seen per Year

I haven't been seeing a lot of films lately, at least not in the theater, and now, I notice, not even on video. Reasons? There are probably many--lack of time being one. But another is how much films in the theater cost (too much, in my view). And still another is probably my switch, this year, to DSL, which now allows me to stream stuff--I end up watching stupid random stuff online (TV shows, home cat videos, skits, speeches, vlogs) and sometimes the occasional movie (without even venturing to the video store). Here's how the number of films each year stacks up:

The 2011 total for theater movies went up as high as it did mostly because of the return of the French film festival to campus--probably the last one we'll have, since the professor sponsoring it was tired of doing it. Cheap foreign movies--it was great. The theater movies total this year was zero until the fall, when my friend Al started asking me to accompany him to a few films.

Facebook Friends

I have a lot more women friends on Facebook than men. I feel a bit embarrassed by how disparate the difference, as if I'm some sort of love and leave them sort (this from a guy who's never managed to get them in the first place). I guess I'm just too nice a guy to have a gal take an interest in me as more than friends. Here's the breakdown:

Different parts of my life render different levels of Facebook friends. The church friends are probably where a large chunk of the women tally up (and I guess I did try lamely to date some share of them). Then again, so would work be largely female, since I work in a profession that is dominated by women (about 70 percent of my coworkers are women). And even my relatives--I have only one male cousin. I'm surprised by how many high school acquaintances I'm connected with versus grad school; I made no lasting undergrad friends. Local friends take up a large share; I wonder how much of that is a testament to how much I like where I live and how comfortable I am in this setting versus how much of that is simply a result of where I am/was living when Facebook came into being (that is, would I have more Texas friends if Facebook had come into being when I was living there?).

Website Viewing Hits 3

So here's the viewing habits for the past month. It looks quite similar to last month, and given that it represents a wider scope of time, it's probably on a part with the usual totals. Dating personals and Web ads dropped off, it appears, in favor of business and search engines. Not sure why business showed up so high this time. I'll do another survey in a few weeks.

Website Viewing Hits 2

Okay, so a couple of weeks have passed since I created that first chart. Now let's look and see if things are pretty much the same as it was for the first week:

So it appears that the subjects of the Websites have changed quite a bit in the past few weeks and that, given the larger time span, the list of types of sites has diversified significantly.

Website Viewing Hits

So I have software that tells me where I've been and breaks it down by category. I don't know quite how the categories are established, since I'm certain I don't spend 4 percent of my time in "chat" (the last time I chatted online was probably five months ago). I suspect every ad a site serves up gets to be part of the categorizing, so I don't actually have to go to the page (e.g., if I'm in gmail, the g-chat being available, even if unused, perhaps gets categorized).

Anyway, here's how my viewing apparently breaks down for the past week: