It seems these days that we are all connected to the web throughout our days. Each persona relies on it for different things. Some are constantly checking their email, others are scoping out their friends and family on Facebook, and still others are reading up on the latest headlines. The internet is so expansive that there is a nook and niche that everyone can fill in some way with all of the programs and information available floating around in cyber space. However, sometimes finding out what you want to be doing on the web or looking at online can be a bit overwhelming given the millions of options. Thankfully, there are a number of tools that you can use through your 4g connection to sift through the sites and make your internet time more efficient and personalized.
One of the greatest and simplest tools that not enough people take advantage of is bookmarking. With any 4g device, or any internet browser there are ways for you to categorize and save the websites you stumble across that you want to come back to at a future point in time. It's as easy as clicking and labeling, and you can begin creating your own personalized catalogue of websites and programs that you will visit again and again. Clicking the "bookmark" or "favorite" button is not the only step, and this is what many people fail to see. What you should do instead is click "add to bookmarks" or "add to favorites" and when the text box comes up to ask you for a name, don't leave the one that's in the box! Use that box as an opportunity to tag the website for yourself in a way that will tell you what it is and get you to come back. Instead of taking the general given name, give it a personal touch like "Awesome Natural Foods Blog" or "Cheap Eats in NYC" or "Colorful and Inspiring Photolog." By taking a few seconds to give the site a more specific and personalized name, you will jog your memory better in the future so that you can get back there again someday with your 4g connection.
On top of adding these labels, you can also organize the labels under bigger categories to keep things of a similar vein together. For example, you can put all your recipe websites in one folder, and your job hunting resources in another. You can put all your favorite Christmas gifts in one list and then put your own holiday shopping list in another. You can be as specific or as vague as you want, and it will add some organization to the pages you want to save to see again with 4g.
Another online program that was actually developed to help you find the kinds of websites you like is called StumbleUpon. This site has you check off a list of preferences of things that you are interested in; it starts out asking about general categories and then gets more and more specific. After you give the site your preferences it brings you to a webpage it selects, based on your stated interests. From there you have the ability to "like" and "dislike" where it brings you so that the program can hone in even further to bring you what you really want to see. To this extent, the longer you use the program, the more it will get to know you and what you like. Pretty soon it will be introducing you to a world of 4g internet that will look as though it was designed for you and only you.
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