Grafitter.com - Study Your Online Habits

We don’t think about it that often, but… how long do we spend on services like Twitter and Facebook? Rather, do we ever ask ourselves that very same question? I think that is never the case, if only because we are having too much fun in order to stop and ponder on it. But if you are ever bitten by curiosity and want to arrive at some sort of conclusion, a personal informatics tool like Grafitter will come to the rescue. You see, it is an application that will let you collect and analyze your behavioral information and then see a set of result showcasing your habits and patterns.

Using this tool, then, it is extremely easy to gather data appertaining to Twitter, Delicious, Blogger and Instant Messaging and have it displayed in a setting which is easy to understand and apprehend.

And if the results are somehow worrying, you will be capable of applying any corrective measure you might feel is in order. In actuality, we know that the results are going to be a bit worrying on their own, but if we place them in context and see the advantages we derive for something as useful as Twitter or Facebook it all works out in the end.

“Grafitter is a way collecting information about your self over time while sending updates with Twitter, using IM, saving bookmarks on Delicious, and writing a post on Blogger. Grafitter visualizes the information you record in graphs.



If you've been using Twitter, Delicious, or Blogger, you can use it now. Go to the top bar and enter the username.



If you want to record specific information (e.g., your mood, what you ate, the miles you run), use the Grafitter format when sending a Twitter update, while talking to Grafitter IM bot, saving a Delicious bookmark, or writing a Blogger post.”

Social dependence on the web is something which can easily escalate. This online application will let just anybody know how he is doing, and whether or not he is going overboard.

How long does a full analysis take? In which ways can you streamline it if you want?