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See Full StoryThere are two ways to read the news that just four Web properties
account for half of all the surfing time in the U.S. One school of
thought sees the consolidation as a dangerous trend, one that threatens
to make the Internet a homogenous, brand-name-riddled commercial strip
straight out of one of the nation's anonymous suburbs.
But that view ignores a fundamental fact underlying the data: People are
free to go wherever they'd like online. The biggest portals have won
their audience fair and square. Maybe the message is that people like
the familiar feel of those suburbs just as much online as off. It's
a message that e-commerce should heed.
hundreds, if not thousands, of sites.
But--as with anything we do--we "prioritize".
As time went by (and as time was wasting!) I
eventually found myself going to the same
half-dozen sites regularly.
Although I do have many varied interests, I do not
have unlimited time to explore *all* of them,
so I naturally choose to trim my list of
"Favorites/Bookmarks".
Sometimes on the weekends, I find myself
exploring some of my old (saved) Favs....
:::::sigh:::::
So much to see....almost *too* much!! lol
The Web offers *something* for everyone.....
but I limit my time online now...if I didn't,
I'd surely be suffering from "information-
overload"!!
