Facebook is perhaps more useful overall to me, but as far as pure entertainment and joy, this site takes the cake.

And SBNation in total is really awesome. Even though I don’t participate at most sites, I usually come here for news on anything going on. When I wanted to know when Mat Gamel was going to be called up, I just browsed through Brew Crew Ball for a few days to see if they knew anything. If someone gets hurt in a game, I just go to the teams game thread to find out what it looked like and how bad it looked. I don’t need ESPN or Yahoo Sports hardly at all anymore, and I think that’s a good thing.

My primary use of the community is to discuss the Giants with more knowledgeable fans. My friends and co-workers who are fans are only superficial fans or have limited knowledge of advanced statistics. I can only take so much when it comes to hearing my boss complain about how he isn’t a fan of Brian Wilson because “he looks like a jerk with a stupid hair cut” or talk about how Randy Winn is a good player.

incredibly knowledgeable user base
hilarious and cool people, many of whom I’ve met IRL and are awesome
pretty sweet functionality

however, it’s #3 (#4 if you count facebook) in my list of web communities in which i participate. #1 is a closed musicians’ forum and #2 is a cycling board.

I don’t have a facebook, myspace or twitter. Places I surf on the internet:

1. Yahoo Fantasy Sports – Quite a few leagues, I interact with friends and some family through there.
2. McCovey Chronicles – My outsource of smart-ass humor. Oh, and you guys & gals are pretty smart. I steal all your info & pass it onto friends & family as my own. Thanks. (You really should copyright some of your stuff)
3. ESPN – For the news. Buster Olney’s daily blog is my new sports page.

And that is about it.

Those that want “Real Time” game chat, can go to IRC (Dalnet, Undernet, Efnet, etc…) and set up a real time chat channel. If people want to try out how that would work, I have a channel (that I’m “babysitting” for someone) where you could give it a whirl.

I won’t be home tonight but maybe for Friday night’s game if people want to try it, I’ll add a “how to get there from here” to this thread.

Does MCC have pictures of my cousin? I THINK NOT!

I dont use the internet for much more else except the obvious

This site is definitely my #1 online community. I only have a facebook that I rarely use. I work M-F 8:30-5:30 so I’m pretty much on McC the entire time.

I only use this site to post XANTHAN WUZ RONG or some variation thereof.

This is probably #1 or a close #2 to me. I don’t use Facebook that much though, actually.

Sorry McC, but you’re always gonna be my chick/guy on the side. But one that I’ll always love.

As a hermitlike curmudgeon I have no need.

Ok , while I HAVE the two latter I never go there.

This is like a Giants Facelessbook for me.

This place is alright, I guess.

My two main haunts are here and Facebook. I just joined FB a few months ago and I’ve been here forever.

FB is great ofr keeping touch with friends, but McC is something special. Yeah, we’re united by our love for the Giants and I’m always learning, but the tangents, running gags, snarky remarks and hilarious images takes it to another level. The longer you hang out here, the more fun it becomes. It’s nearly impossible to describe to others who don’t “get it”. Like Delorean, I’ve met a bunch of y’all IRL and have what I consider friends here.

On the other hand, if Facebook had more dick jokes, I’d so be outta here.

I’ve been a fan of this site since April of 2005. I have a great time here. It’s much better than “Cats.” I’m going to click on these posts again and again.

I am just here to commiserate.

I came for the Thighler Walker jokes. I stayed for the fondue set Grant promised me. I’m still waiting, Grant.

Man, the second that thing comes through, I’m so out.

but seriously, McC is like 1a. for me. i joined this season, and its been an awesome place for dick jokes, snarky remarks, “analysis” and awesome pics

I probably write more at Stormfront, but I spend more time here.

LiveJournal is still my most important virtual community. I’ve been there since 2001 and met a ton of important people in my life there; my best friend from Boston, as well as several other online friends who became IRL friends. I’ve dated a few men I met via LJ, including a guy I was with on and off for about four years.

Facebook is #2, probably because I have so many professional contacts there. I have several media contacts on Facebook and I network with them; fellow writers, broadcasters, and players.

Then this place is #3. I’ve met lots of IRL people here as well and managed to spread the gospel of the Giants’ minor leaguers.

I don’t Twitter (I’m not one to twit or twat) and MySpace is garbage.

This site and my website site. Did you guys know I have a website? DID YOU.

I check Facebook a bit, too.

and to read awesome minor league updates

and to BORK BORK BORK

and for the HOTH BOTHAN BONING

and the pie

I spend too much time here and too much time on Facebook, but this is my favorite.

I actually sorta met my wife through an online forum (we actually met at a gathering of said forum), but I don’t really like it that much anymore. Nowhere near as much as I like MCC..

MCC and Flickr. I definitely interact with folks more here, but my BFFs are all on Flickr.

1) giantsboard.com, which consumes way too much of my life
2) McC is cool when I actually have time, but this place has velocity I can’ t keep up with in the little extra time I have. If it wasn’t for #1 I would probably be able to post everyday

This place is easily one of the most visited places on the web for me. I definitely do the most posting here.

I’m on this site more than any other site.

but i’m usually on this site for at least an hour a day; since moving to the east coast a few weeks ago i find myself rarely in front of a computer, and the games don’t start until pretty late my time, but i’m here when i can be.

i’d say aside from facebook, gmail, and ebay (selling things online now to make rent rocks!) this is my place to be. and i think i’ll finally make a game thread again tonight!

I’m mostly here to work on my photoshopping skillz when Sanchez is pitching. There is an art to it that I’ve only begun to learn.

Facebook and here are neck and neck, but I mainly come here to steal ideas and statistical references I can use to make people on Facebook think I know what I’m talking about regarding the Giants. It works pretty well.

The only reason I voted for the “two other places” option is because one is personal (facebook…a great place to look through family members’ and friends’ photos at your own pace and discretion), and the other is professional. But for sheer entertainment and more knowledge than I gleaned from thirty years of reading standard sporting pages, McCC is second to none. I can’t keep up with the comments much these days (it seems even the most brief and innocuous post elicits thousands of comments…a tribute to the growth of the site’s popularity), but I ‘m still an avid reader, and have started to reflexively refer to Grant’s pieces as ‘columns’ and ‘articles’ these days, as I see his work as worthy of that respect. That is of course a matter of semantics, yes—there is a generation of people who will see no hierarchy of terms in references like “posting” versus “column”—but I still read value into those words.

That being said, Rush still sucks unless you’re in 7th grade, my list of books I’ve read is more erudite than yours, my list of films more obscure, and I miss E.

I use Facebook and MySpace and Twitter for different things. Facebook for people I know in “real life”, MySpace for my profession – I would totally ditch it but I have too many professional contacts with other artists and whatnot. Twitter’s for the LOLs.

BUT this is the place I have the most fun at.I’m not STRICTLY here for the lulz, but it’s close. I really cannot stand the stereotypical meathead sports fan, heaped with testosterone and frequently racist and sexist and homophobic and et cetera. This place is an oasis, it’s so unlike any other place where I can talk, share, and learn baseball it’s not even close. I learn so much from all youse. But the laughs are top notch. Some days those Gameday Threads are the only thing I really look forward to. I have a blast watching those games with you people. So thanks.

This is the only place I post on. I don’t even have Facebook.

Livejournal first, then FB and then here. So basically, same as the Baron.

I basically blog, tweet and facebook for a living. So I spend more time on other sites, but this is by far my favorite place to “escape” those other communities.

is Heidi Montag’s twitter page considered a virtual community?

but Im lying to myself

I have a facebook and have been a member for awhile now. I joined when you needed a college e-mail address to join. But I still don’t use it, I went on the other day to see this story Grant told and I couldn’t even find my groups

Facebook – MCC.

This crowd is funny. But I also like to check in when I see something interesting on MLBTrade rumors, such as Penny, Harden…

I spend most of my time on here and the site that I run for a living: Advice.com

/shameless

Not a single mention of listservs, alt.sex.unix or alt.sex.eunuchs—shee-it, I am behind the times.

No Facebook, no MySpace, no Twitter, on a few music-related listservs (Neil Young, Bevis Frond, Los Lobos, GD traders). Have wanted to found GetOutOfMyFacebook.com, but am lazy.

My google chrome top 10 visited sites:

#1: Deadspin
#2: Front Office Football Central (nerdy football GM simulator forum)
#3: McCovey Chronicles
#4: Google
#5: Youtube
#6: Slutload

One site I’ve been spending more and more time on is Yelp. I haven’t created an ID yet, but have a bunch of places I want to review. I found a REALLY good/honest Jeep mechanic on Yelp, which I consider a miracle.

http://www.absolutecar.com/

Corner of Larkin and Sutter. Phil is the man!

Dealer in Daly City wanted $1,800 to fix/replace AC. Phil said “Nah, just one part” and it was like $150. He’s done other work for me and I’ve been very pleased. Heckuva nice guy.

If you’re interested in using him, let me know and I’ll send you my real name so you can tell him I sent you. He loves referrals.

Also, I’m not the only person who obsessively refreshes their Last.fm profile, am I?

Main purpose: Giants news and chat
other ones: foodie tips
cat pics
get marginally more up to date on snarkiness

…Im only here for all the hot chicks.