What do you do when you surf the internet besides making money?

Like just about everybody here I have several different ways that I make money online but other than spending time updating and maintaining my websites, blogs and writing, I probably spend most of my free time online checking the news sites. I like to check different sites from around the world to get another perspective on things too. There are also a few blogs that I check on now and then and of course I email friends and family. Occasionally, I like to us my "stumble" button and visit a few random sites. Once in a while I find something really interesting that I might bookmark. As you can imagine, I have quite a large list of bookmarks, so I also go through the list once in a while and revisit sites that I haven't been to in a while. You mentioned there are places that offer free courses online. I would be interested in checking that out. If you or anyone has any links to free online college type courses, please post them here so I can have a look. Thanks.

I enjoy using the internet for mylotting but also for looking up crochet patterns, or wii games or something like that. I also chat with my husband (though he's in the same room as I) and our friend. We look at MTG and Yugioh things as well. I hope to take online courses for medical transcription and medical secretary soon though we are saving up money for other things as well.

I try my best to get that free time to look for poem sites and read people's writings. I am fascinated with poetry in all forms and I think it's a special coded writing, in my own words there. It's emotions meshed together and we can just release our tension through poetry. So, if not on mylot or writing sites and etc, I'm looking out for latest poetry to read and get inspired to write some too.

I agree with you about the internet. I always tell people that the internet is like having the world's encyclopedia at your fingertips. I have never failed to find what I was looking for on the internet. As far as studying on the internet that is about forty percent of my time spent online. You can always find free information on whatever topic you need to learn. I consider myself an intermediate level experience with computers and I have been self taught. I took computers in high school and started in college with a couple semesters but changed to auto mechanics. Back then windows wasn't even heard of. The main computer language was basic and you had to write a program for everything you wanted to do. Of course their were a few software items on the market but they are useless compared to the software we have today. I got my first real home computer with windows in the eighty's and I stayed on it until I fell asleep every day for a few months until I got the basics. I had a couple of books "windows for dummies" and I went through them just as if I was studying at school except I taught myself with them. Now I learn through online articles, blogs, websites, free videos and magazines; both online and printed material that you can get for free. If you did have the extra time I would recommend taking a class in the area that interests you most I just can't do so myself at this time in my life or I would.

I use computer to study English by loging on BBC website. I also want to continue study, but I can not afford the cost either. as you said you also study on line, what do you study? can you kindly share some information with us. now I really want to know some information that can help me to find a useful course.I want to improve my skills then I can find a job.

Besides making money from internet I'll research a lot in bodybuilding and also collect some study materials for Maya and Zbrush !as I;m a 3-D Modeler.Other times I will spend time on social networking sites and forums and sometimes download movies.

The internet is a good place for learning new things. I learned graphic designing from free tutorials. There are some universities that offer free online courses. We only need to download the materials to study.

beside of the making money ,I 'll do other things ;such as the read news .and learn some knoeldge ,as what you said ,the interent is a good thing .there is much thing to learn ,sometimes ,I 'll learn some knowledge in the wiki ,or listen the song in the innternet ,or update my blog

There are lot of opportunities online and if I have vacant time I always take the advantage by learning a Spanish and Chinese language words. It is very interesting and they provide a better understanding. One thing also aside from making money online is I shop online.

I have trying to learn Japanese language online,which kind of hard.In the end,i only use the online tutorial as my source of reference.I believe that we can find many online reference such as e-book by using search engine. Beside search engine,mylot and yahoo answer become an alternative for me when i am trying to find information.There are also many dictionaries and translator in internet which i found it to be very useful for my study.

oh buddy.. trying to make some money from the internet itsewlf takes all the time i have.. still i end up with almost nothing... so i don thig about anything else than making money when ever am online... so if you poeple are aware of any sure shot method of making money online with out much investment even though it gives small returns only.. please do let me know...

Besides chatting, surfing and playing online games, I study a lot from the Internet. There are plenty of study materials and tutorials available in the web for my learnig. I have studied a lot of basics of many softwares fromthe net which I always wished to learn in my life. Not only that, whenever I need some help of any kind of softwares, I try to get help from the web. If no tutor is available it is best to get informed and learn from Internet.

Lets just say that a use and abuse of the web lololol not only to try to make some money, but seeing the news, listening to some radio, going to the hi5 myspace and stuff like that, read some e-books but not much, and of course playing, i have a lot of web games like seafight and evony so lets just say if i would be paid for doing this stuff i would be a happy and rich man lolol

Making money is like the only thing I have been doing lately. But other things I may do are go watch videos on youtube or just spend time talking to people on facebook and AIM. I am on the computer allmost all day and I still can't explain what I did on it all day because I do so much. I would have to say that 70 percent of the time I am on the computer I am trying to make money in some sort of way, but I usually fail.

i do a lot of research on things that interest me such as history. i am very interested in that subject. i like to look at craft sites and am always on the hunt for new ideas too. i also like to look for free clip arts that i can use for my afts and craft plus other freebies and coupons that i can use to save money around the house.

Occasionally I'll surf..But I never have much fun doing that. What I usually do is just go on Facebook or Myspace or even AIM chat to talk to my friends if I am too bored with my earning sites. I split my time up between social networking and sites like MyLot. And that seems to work pretty well for me!

I do research on many things which are of interest to me. Whatever I need to know, I try to find it on the net. Internet is our source of communication too (my sisters abroad and me).

Hello there, well lets see i use search alot to find stuff what i need. Besides money making websites i watch a lot of movies, there are few websites what offer the lates movies what are in some countrys still on cinema screen and i look them for free:))) Hmm last time i tryed to look from net how to connect washing machine hehee but sadly didnt found what i needed..hmm.

I read the news, of course. Then do some emails and facebooks. Then do some general browsings.

playing like mafia wars, or superhereo city on facebook.