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By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search since 2004

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Users - where do you fit?

Wednesday October 15, 2008
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Internet Users This graph from CreateDebate gave me a little giggle this morning, mostly because I found myself identifying with nearly all of their classifications. So! Here's where I found myself:
  • I'm always playing withTwitter
  • I open Outlook about every five minutes two hours
  • I am just a wee bit addicted to eBay
  • Come on - who doesn't love some YouTube?
  • Every morning I tune into Digg to see what's going on

Therefore, I fall under the following classifications:

  • AB: Totally Bored, Yet Communicating
  • AC: Totally Bored, Yet Being Productive
  • AF: Totally Bored, And Shopping
  • AG: Totally Bored and Mindlessly Consuming
  • CG: Being Productive and Mindlessly Consuming

I definitely don't agree with the whole "Totally Bored" thing, but it's a fun way to classify your time online. How about you? Where do you fit?

More Habits

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers: Every time I need to find something on the Web, I am successful. Right? Uh, not exactly. Eventually, I get to where I'm going, but it takes some work sometimes. Over the years I've developed a few search habits that have made me a more effective searcher, and with just a little practice, you can too.

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