For me, I probably spend about 95% of the time on youtube, maybe 4% on porn/erotica, and the occasional 1% on miscellaneous things, like gvmt or business forms. How do you usually spend your time online?

As a XXX producer/directer//performer, that provides the wherwithal to indulge in mental endorphin creation via "wonk" pursuits. We shun YT, as can't abide ads or censorship, for platforms like rumble, locals, et al. Our bartering transactions are conducted via legal tender gold coins or BTC.

Wait, we're online?

Mainly YouTube. Occasionally I would alternate between Bilibili and Crunchyroll to watch anime. But mainly YouTube.

It is unclear if you count also e.g. online gaming, social media apps on phones, even Netflix etc., but from my point of view:

By the used time, probably this:

1. A couple of Finnish discussion forums talking about e.g. electric cars and politics.
2. Youtube.
3. Playing Team Fortress 2 (an online shooter on Steam).
4. GOG forums.

Somehow I just have some... resistance... to spend time on social media apps like Facebook, Whatsapp and what have you. I simply prefer web browser discussion forums (including GOG forums) for various reasons:

1. Privacy. When I am debating with pro-palestinians (I am more pro-Israel) online, I wouldn't dare to do it with my own name because I don't wish to be targeted by the islamists and leftists, or lose my job because some idiot wants to cancel me.

Also, I don't like the idea of anyone being able to find some 15 year old opinions from me by mere googling. Already a long time ago one date went sour when the other party had googled my name and felt she didn't like something I had said in some online discussion many many years before (it was some heated gaming debate about Quake, LOL!). Or if I apply for a job but the would-be boss finds out I vote for a different party or support the opposing ice hockey team, and I don't get the job because of that.

Note: I don't actually know how easy it is to be "incognito" with social media apps, but my understanding is that many of them require you to use your real name, and even if you didn't, they can still probably easily find it out, due to your phone number and shit.

Also, if you use your own name, people are not equal because some have names like John Smith that can't be traced to certain person, while others have more special names like Cockeye Pearlcatcher which identifies the person quite strongly.

"No no, it was not me who wrote that! It was some other bloke called Cockeye Pearlcatcher!"

2. Many social media apps seem to be built on the idea of closed groups with friends etc. (Facebook, Whatsapp etc.), and I just don't find such limited discussion groups interesting. I am in a couple of Whatsapp groups and I have "friends" in Facebook and LinkedIn, but those discussions are so boooooooooriiiiing, someone showing a photo of the pizza he just ate, or my sister taking YET ANOTHER photo of some sunset. Blech.

3. The social media apps seem to more and more concentrate on phones. I hate being online with my phone, writing long messages with my fat fingers and trying to read tiny text on a small mobile phone screen. No thanks.

It is too bad that many discussion groups etc. have moved to social media apps, like when I was looking for specific discussion groups about certain electric cars (Tesla included), I got lots of recommendations to join some closed Facebook groups where you first have to apply, discuss with your real name etc.

Youtube
Video streaming sites such as Tubi, Freevee, and Roku Channel for movies and tv shows.
E-mail
Ebay (for buying and selling)
Etsy (for the kind of stuff I can't find on ebay)
Research
Visiting websites related to my hobbies, such as GOG
Various data backup websites

The time I spend on each varies day to day.

Youtube, gaming forums (GOG, Doomworld, DarkMatters, Steam, Grim Dawn forums) and sometimes Twitch. Checking my 2 mails 2-3 times a week, some news reading and general browsing etc.

Don't use any social media, nor communication apps like WhatsApp or Discord.

Most of the time I play as an engineer, and it isn't quite as hectic. In fact with an engineer the game feels more like some kind of tactical tower defense game, rather than a first person shooter. I've been told quite many times to go to h*ll when playing the engineer in e.g. the Hightower map and being able to block enemies from even exiting their base. Just yesterday someone from the other team asked my team to kick me out of the server because I was being too efficient as an engineer. :)

Also, at least in "capture the flag" maps, the game is quite forgiving for beginners because you can choose to stay in your own base, to defend it. You don't have to run outside shouting "Leeroy Jenkins!" if you haven't yet mustered enough confidence. Make yourself useful defending the base first.

I recently tried out Overwatch 2 and Counterstrike 2... but meh, especially CS2 just doesn't really do it to me, it is mere shooting but I do see why many like it. Overwatch 2 might be ok but so far I got no urge to stop playing TF2 and switch to it.

I also tried Fortnite maybe a year ago but I really didn't get it either.

Mostly read the news and write comments in discussion boards. Sometimes troll people.
I also pirate books in that well-known Russian piracy site. That is one of the best parts of the net for me.

I lurk forums, watch the slow well deserved collapse of Gamestop (current hobby), roleplay, look at art, pine for the days when various games genres were happy to not take themselves as seriously as a Frank Miller comic, and every Sunday at 00:00 Z I watch Arcade Pit on Twitch, the Video Games Game Show where two teams of two compete in a variety of retro video game challenges including art, screenshots, trivia, and a whole host of challenges inspired by Nick Arcade but with far more competent contestants & challenges!

Beat the rush! Go out and watch an archived episode of Arcade Pit today!

Or for those of you across the Atlantic, The Gamesmaster, except can the tips & hints section because those were weirdly formatted anyway.

What do you do online?

Can't break it down in percentages, but (in no particular order):

- check emails
- watch YT
- listen YT
- use online forums
- stream AP/media libraries
- watch porn
- shop online
- read articles

I guess that's basically it.

What do I do online... Well, Youtube is always running in the background because I can't handle silence. And while I'm listiening to Kitboga or Scammer Payback, I chat on Discord and IRC, write on several forums, watch erotica and sometimes I even play games :)

Other than this forum, there's e-mail, mainly for newsletters and calls to action, I read articles and news, spend a bit of time with petitions and if I have more time and also the needed mental strength and... stability (this latter usually being the limiting factor and in ever shorter supply...) also take part in those calls to action asking to actually write messages to representatives or what not, check the sales at the stores that I tend to go to according to the schedule that each has to publish them, there are a few people that I follow on Fb in the sense that I tend to check their pages/profiles once per day, usually before I go to bed, occasionally YouTube, mainly for music, but not so much anymore, most of the time I just have headphones on but don't listen to anything (bar the times when I mean to write a post with some (usually) lesser known bands and I go down that rabbit hole), occasional glances on MobyGames but since the redesign mostly just when I'm searching for a game, gave up on the place otherwise, sometimes doing some surveys, looking up something that catches my interest, occasionally posting on blog or looking up something for a post, but far less time put into that than years ago, check a couple of other sites that I tend to check...
That'd be more or less it. No social media other than checking those profiles usually. Maybe the occasional glance on a profile or at some new question on OkCupid but no actual activity there in many years. And in general no social anything really other than this forum, tends to be months without sending as much as a message to anyone otherwise except my father when he's at work or otherwise away and there's something to say or reply to, no on-line gaming, been years and years since I went for any porn and actually quite a long time since I even downloaded any sort of "pirated" stuff, and over a decade since it was anything other than music or a few books.

BBC and Eurogamer check of the news in the morning.

Twitter on my phone in the bathroom or when bored at the doctor's office or whatever.

Youtube videos when eating by myself or playing with my dog. Usually video game and tech stuff, edited not streaming.

Game forum use is kinda random when I get the urge. Usually Reddit nowadays but sometimes here and Steam. My old gaming forums are even worse with culture war shit than this place so I abandoned them.