Pointless things you do on the Internet

[HockyRorror]

‘Pointless’ can be replaced with sad, embarrassing, weird, shameful, pathetic.. anything you wouldn’t happily admit to everyone really

Mine is going on Trip Advisor to look up random places I have no intention of ever visiting or similarly, going on Amazon to look up products I have no intention of ever buying, filtering the reviews to show only the 1 star/‘terrible’ reviews and then reading and laughing at them

 

[OoglyBoogly]

Give myself a budget, pick an area of the country and decide which house I would buy. It wastes hours!

 

[HockyRorror]

I love atlasobsucura for random places in locations haha - i lose hours to searching

This sounds interesting, will take a ponder at that. If you like that, you might like the online game “geoguessr”

I am always on rightmove, irrespective of whether I’m happy where I am living. I just love seeing which houses are overpriced, which houses are still on the market - some have been on the market for 5 years running - love getting ideas for my own home and those decorating schemes to avoid.

I am FAR too snobby for someone who has hardly any money when it comes to Right Move, looking down my nose at million pound houses because I don’t think the garden is big enough for my liking or it doesn’t “even” have an indoor pool

 

[Pagger]

When my husband is pissing me off I go on a benefits calculator to see how much I would be entitled to as a single mum

 

[ClockworkDolly]

I am always on rightmove, irrespective of whether I’m happy where I am living. I just love seeing which houses are overpriced, which houses are still on the market - some have been on the market for 5 years running - love getting ideas for my own home and those decorating schemes to avoid.

 

[Kim Mild]

I search for most people I come across in real life on social media cos im so nosy.
Also ,when I find out where someone lives, I look up their house on rightmove sold prices to see how long they lived there and what it looked like inside. It is disappointing when they rent .

 

[HubIreLovesMnD]

Going on Tattle . . .

 

[Practically Perfect]

i also go on John Lewis, harvey Nicks et al and buy anything and everything i want and when my basket is around £10k i close the window down and go spend £50 somewhere else and not feel guilty about it

 

[Bitofthebubbly]

Why do some people have to come on to a nice lighthearted thread to try and start drama?

 

[Halliestar]

Going on street view to look at my house and scrolling down the streets I walk down

 

[Kim Mild]

It looks like some people's 'pointless things they do on the internet ' is be self- righteous and have a go at strangers for things that don't concern them.

You quoted somebody who said they used a benefit calculator to see how much they get and said yes I do that too. Maybe my original post should have also been aimed at who you quoted.


Vile. You obviously don’t provide much for yourself and your children at the moment or you wouldn’t be entitled to very much.

People can input their details into the calculator if they want . It's on the internet for all to access.

 

[Hodgies]

Lots of house related searching, I spend hours on rightmove looking. Sometimes it's local or places I know or used to live in, other times I just hear a place-name and have a search. Also, house prices....fascinated! Also love streetview and look up all sorts of places. Went to pick stuff up from a school mum the other day and had not only done a map of directions but had streetviewed her road and knew how much she paid for it in 2013.

On a similar vein I've often researched people online, not to do anything with the info, more just to know I can. People are scarily open! Case in point, I liked a picture someone had put up on Instagram which is near where my parents live and she had lots of pictures from round about there too so I followed her. Got nosey one day as she had put a picture up of the view from her front garden and I recognised it as the same road as my parents. Didn't take me long to work out exactly where she lived, where she used to live, all her family members names and where she worked. Just as well I don't have ulterior motives

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Our work email got hacked not long ago and I kept getting all these scam emails demanding $8000 in Bitcoin or they would publish my internet search history. I couldn’t stop laughing at how boring of a read that would be

 

[XXSJPXX]

I will probably sound like a perv but i enjoy reading comments on Pornhub and reviews for toys on Lovehoney, some of them are really funny

 

[Isa Drennan]

Just went through the Isle of Skye on google maps as if I was driving through it

 

[Hodgies]

I’m sure I’ll be called humourless but this very offensive. I know many single parents who don’t get a penny in benefits so have to pay for everything out of their own salary. This is also very smug as it’s saying I look at their lives for a bit of entertainment then I go back to my husband who provides for me

It's your right to take my post any way you like but I'm not sure how I could be offensive or smug when I haven't mentioned a word about benefits, single parents or having a husband who provides for me.

 

[McNuggets]

I love trawling through eBay looking at vintage rings.

 

[This.is.me]

Meme pages on Instagram...not sure how I would get through life without memes tbh

Also I came across a few strange reviews on Argos ages ago when I was genuinely looking for a few things I needed to buy, see below reviews for digital luggage scales and travel iron. I occasionally look through product reviews to see if I can find any gems like these ones

 

[LucilleBluth]

So glad I’m not the only plane tracker. I find it fascinating thinking about what all the people on the plane are coming here for. Coming home, coming for work, happy occasion, sad occasion, in transit... endless possibilities! Sometimes I tell people I use FlightRadar and they’re like

 

[HelloStereo]

Drop a pin on Google Maps and explore the area. I've spent hours wandering down streets of far flung cities.